Word: ceta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Extend the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973 beyond its scheduled expiration date later this year. CETA gathered a host of federal programs under a single administrative umbrella. It provides block grants to state and local governments for public works projects and for placing unemployed Americans of all ages in jobs ranging from puppeteer to policeman. Carter would earmark $900 million in CETA funds to create 138,000 new jobs for disadvantaged youths under 21, including $450 million for "innovative and experimental programs...
...Double the size of the Job Corps, a cornerstone of President Johnson's War on Poverty that was cut back severely under President Nixon. The Job Corps, one of the CETA programs, houses poor youths in camps and dormitories while they are trained for employment. It would get $342 million, creating 40,000 more jobs...