Word: ceta
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...President deepened several of the cuts he had proposed last month. For instance, on top of the $3.6 billion saved by wiping out the program of hiring the unemployed for public service jobs under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act, the President now recommends whacking $870 million more off CETA spending by consolidating and trimming a variety of additional youth-employment programs. Reagan had earlier recommended reducing the number of new or rehabilitated federally subsidized housing units from the 260,000 recommended for fiscal 1982 by Jimmy Carter to 225,000; last week the White House proposed a further slash...
Many Erie officials, not surprisingly, condemn the proposed slashing of CETA funds. Says Mayor Louis Tullio: "It's going to have a drastic effect on the nonprofit agencies, on the services they provide, and on the city of Erie." R. Benjamin Wiley, executive director of the Greater Erie Community Action Committee, which administers CETA programs, is even more vehement in describing the impact. "There's going to be more crime and more homicides," warns Wiley. "The bottom line is that if these programs are cut, you're putting more people out there on the unemployment line...
Similar fears are voiced by agency heads and CETA employees alike. "Without CETA, we'll have a serious problem," says Robert Harrison, executive director of the John F. Kennedy Center, a community organization that provides social services to about 3,000 families and employs six CETA workers, about 15% of its staff. Harrison predicts that the center will be forced to reduce sharply its day care and youth recreation programs, as well as curtail the hours of its health clinic. Howard Mclntyre, 31, earns $30 a week while learning to be a machine-tool operator in a CETA training...
Opponents of CETA funding, however, argue that many people employed in the program are not learning a craft, but are only filling menial jobs. They are thus not gaining the kind of work experience that prepares them for better positions. For those who are indeed learning a skill, like McIntyre, there is no guarantee that they will be hired in economically strapped Erie...
Mayor Tullio admits that abolishing CETA will not throw all 500 CETA employees out of work. He estimates that the non-profit agencies will end up placing on their own payrolls as many as half of those currently paid by CETA. Says Tullio resignedly: "The things we're going to have to live without, we're going to have to live without." Meanwhile, most CETA workers are determined to find other jobs, rather than join the welfare rolls. "I'll try to find work," says David Goodwill, who is now paid $3.75 an hour by CETA...