Word: ceta
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...loan program." In Denver, Bureau Chief Richard Woodbury visited a food stamp center, only to find that some people were too embarrassed to talk to him. Says he: "For many aid recipients there is a deep stigma attached to obtaining handouts." Traveling to Erie, Pa., to report on proposed CETA cuts, Correspondent Robert Geline found residents ready to make do- "but nobody could...
...realistic appraisal of a cut in Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) funding would show that many cities in this country will have no other way of paying many of their employees. That means more decrepit streets, more dangerous neighborhoods, less fire protection, less library service and less park maintenance. And because CETA jobs usually to go Blacks and other minorities the cuts will mean an increase in the already too high rates of unemployment among these groups. Cuts in Medicaid, while they might help eliminate waste, will definitely make quality health care an option available to fewer people...
Community groups have joined master-planner Logue in his efforts to redevelop the South Bronx. On Kelly Street in the southeastern part of the area, a group called the Banana-Kelly Community Improvement Association has renovated five vacant buildings with CETA workers and "urban homesteaders." The homesteaders used their own labor as equity in financing the purchase of an apartment they rehabilitated. In one of the worst areas of the South Bronx, on 168th Street and Washington Avenue, another homesteading group, the People's Development Corporation, has rennovated five other tenements. Their remodeled buildings sport solar energy panels, greenhouses, storm...
City officials agreed yesterday that Cambridge could lose "substantial" federal funding in the forms of CETA and other employment aid grants, although they would not provide exact figures. State losses of Congressional seats would also hurt the city indirectly...
Census officials also undercounted many Cambridge-area students who didn't know they were officially city residents, Tim Reidy, acting director of Cambridge's CETA program, said this week...