Word: ceta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Warmly received by small groups in Baltimore, Carter stopped first at the home of Mrs. Genitha Rhyne in a predominantly black neighborhood. CETA workers had weatherproofed the house, and a solar unit for heating water had been installed with a $9,500 grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. "This ought to save you money," Carter told Mrs. Rhyne. Then he assured a group of neighborhood residents: "Our country is determined to win the energy war. The people here on East Biddle Street can help me. Do you agree?" The crowd roared its support. Predicting that similar solar...
...Neill, who regards him as something of a rebel, Jones last January maneuvered himself onto the powerful Budget Committee. He has since recommended cuts in spending for the Urban Development Bank, the Department of Energy's mismanaged Strategic Petroleum Reserve and the Labor Department's scandal-plagued CETA employment program...
...Congress has its finger in the wind, and they're going to outdo the President in cutting back," he added, predicting a series of "mini-conflicts" over urban aid programs such as CETA (Comprehensive Employee Training Act), revenue-sharing and Urban Development and Assistance Grants (UDAG...
Among the most controversial of the changes is OMB'S recommendation for a 26% cut in this year's $10.8 billion in spending for public jobs-the so-called CETA program. By one Administration estimate, such a reduction could add more than 312,000 people to the nation's unemployment rolls and would be widely condemned by labor and its congressional allies...
...have been taken on the precise programs to be reduced, there are some prime candidates. The Comprehensive Employment and Training Act, which places unemployed low-income people in public service jobs, will cost an estimated $11 billion in fiscal 1979. But the program is beset by inefficiency and corruption; CETA officials often hand out jobs on a patronage basis. This month Labor Secretary Marshall set up a new investigative unit to try to root out fraud in the program...