SIGRAH ~8- Authority and especially the Congress cannot afford to waste precious revenues in this area, A second disturbing facc related to this apparent "drop out" of studentsis the fact +hat some of the Mocronesia students who do graduate are either unable to find jobs, or leave Micronesia because the wages and benexits found elsewhere are more attractive. While there are no statistics to document. this--outward flow of Microngsian manpower is a fact of lite which members of Congress: are aware of in each of the districts. Thus we see.the goals of the next few years for Micronesia's education system providing training of our labor force at all levels, keeping this work force with an aim at self-sufficiency, and upgrading at all levels to maintain. quality of this resource in the future. Education in ail aspects we consider a prime importance. We. thus were gratified to see the Administering Authority indicate some interest and concern in.this area by the formation of a special Joint Task Force of the Departments of Health, Education, and Welfare and the Interior. Unfortunately, we have yet to see:the final draft of the Task Force's resort. We do not know how proposed cuts in funds for the Office of Economic Opportunity and HEW budgets will affect its recommendations. In like fashion, we are unsure at this point of what assistance the task force report will be to social development in the Trust Territory. a 6 Fa We have yet to see any initiation of the recommendations the U.S. Social Advisor to the. Paeific whose report was ntioned last year before this Council, ” QO m The environment © the district center areas due to an influx of people FeCrsae mere rene from outlying areas is producing its share of juvenile delinquency, and health, and other social problems, It is clear that such problems require the foresight, manpows? and tunds to resolve the problems of delinquency. We need to improve our penal system to thwart recidivism and to insure rehabilitation. The fucure of Community Action Agencies are at present fatally linked to the fact of the Office of Economic Opportunity program which is now in limbo and beyond che competence or resources of the Congress. As regards a particular area of social advancement we have noted that the 1973 Visiting Mission looked favorably upon the present Bikini Rehabilitation program. However, “lroTe~