Word: ceta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nowhere have there been more flagrant cases of nepotism, patronage and mismanagement in CETA-financed activities, which are supposed to benefit only the poor, than in South Florida. Some examples...
...John Clark, 22, the son of Miami City Commissioner Stephen Clark, held a $4.18-an-hour CETA job as a laborer for the parks department. Another son, Paul Clark, 18, was enrolled in a six-month diesel mechanic's training program (upon graduation, he got a $4.80-an-hour job washing buses at CETA'S expense). Also on the CETA payroll was Commissioner Clark's estranged wife, Faye, who drew $4.80 an hour as a social worker for the Dade County Association for Retarded Citizens...
...Watergate Burglar Bernard Barker held a $10,000-a-year CETA job as a sanitation inspector, which he got on the recommendation of Miami City Commissioner Manolo Reboso. CETA also paid half of his tuition as an engineering student at Florida International University. CETA pays Barker's ex-wife Clara $14,000 a year as a clerk-typist and his present wife Maria $12,500 a year as a city sanitation inspector. Says Barker: "I think it is a wonderful program...
...Margarita Ross, whose husband heads a Coral Gables engineering firm, was paid $14,200 a year, largely from CETA funds, as Miami's "cultural experiences coordinator." Mrs. Ross was apparently well connected: she is a former partner in a downtown art gallery with the wife of Miami Mayor Maurice Ferre...
Ferre says he sees nothing wrong with politicians helping friends obtain CETA jobs. Says he: "It's just incongruous to conceive that elected officials aren't going to recommend people they have a high regard for." But spokesmen for Miami's poor complain that the program is being turned into a hiring hall for the middle class. Says Urban League Director T. Willard Fair: "The chronic unemployed are being left out of the system." Indeed, Fair's own $189,000 CETA job-training program is being investigated-for spending money on training programs for long-time...