Word: ceta
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...over, too, people dubious about aspects of the President's plan took to heart Reagan's challenge to come up with a better one. New York City Mayor Edward Koch asserted that the proposals to slash mass transit aid and the food stamp program and eliminate the CETA program to hire the unemployed for public-service jobs "are wrong and must not be implemented." Koch added, however: "I agree that there has to be a reduction in spending. He has thrown down the challenge; it's very reasonable. If we don't like his proposals...
...Francisco alone. Arkansas may lose as many as 2,500 workers, while New York City will dismiss 11,500. "Most of ours will end up going back on welfare," complains Ronald Gault, New York's employment commissioner. Yet of all Reagan's budget cuts, the controversial CETA program may be among the least missed. Says Cleveland Mayor George Voinovich, whose city has 500 CETA workers: "CETA was supposed to help us train people to do jobs in the private sector. But for years jobs in the private sector have been shrinking. It would have been more helpful...
Worked Up over CETA...
Joseph Lilley, 41, drives a van for Erie Independence House, a home for twelve handicapped people in Erie, Pa. He earns $4 an hour for a 40-hour work week, and his salary is paid by the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), the federal jobs and job-training program founded in 1973. With four children and a wife on welfare, Lilley considers himself lucky to hold the CETA-funded post. "Before this job, I was on welfare," says Lilley. "I probably would have trouble finding another job because I have a prison record. CETA helps people like myself...
...more, if the Reagan Administration succeeds in its plan to abolish CETA programs across the nation. In Erie, Lilley is one of 500 people currently paid by CETA and working for such nonprofit agencies as the Y.M.C.A. and the Red Cross or learning job skills in local training programs. In addition, CETA funded summer jobs for 500 of the city's youngsters last year. In the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, Erie will receive $5 million from CETA -a welcome transfusion for a decaying industrial city that is hemorrhaging jobs. The unemployment rate in Erie now hovers...