Word: ceta
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...past four years. Reagan cut funds for education and student loans, child care programs, food programs, for children, and youth employment programs. He cancelled the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) which included major youth job programs while youth unemployment was growing; he tried to have child labor regulations relaxed to allow employers to demand longer hours under worse conditions, he campaigned for a sub-minimum wage for young people. And he tried to eliminate the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, and finally reduced its funds by 30 percent...
...agency "tries to find out the specific needs of the individual and their particular career objective," says IOU Training Specialist Mark A. Pelletier. A former employee of the federal government's CETA office in Boston, he calls the program "the most unique and effective of its kind...
PERHAPS HOPING to woo the feminists into her camp, Heckler gave a lengthy analysis in April 1961, on the floor of the House, of the effects of Reagan's budget cuts on women. The clock ticked on and on as the Congresswoman discussed first housing, health services, legal services, CETA program. Social Security benefits and students loans, all of which, if cut, she stressed, would have a disproportionately severe effect on women. One month later she voted yes on three crucial procedural votes which ensured passage of Reagan's budget, while covering herself by voting no on the budget itself...
Although the authority, which receives funds from the Federal Job Training Partnership Act the successor of the CETA program--already acts as a "big employment agency" for Cambridge residents, it only provides aid for income-eligible clients. "We wanted to make this service available to other people too." Sullivan said, so the council approved an additional $69,000 allocation in December for the creation of the independent citizen's employment program...
Instead, programs like CETA should be limited to the unemployable--high-school dropouts and graduates who are illiterate--and should stress remedial skills along with job training. Once these teenagers gain the skills necessary to enter the labor force, the tax credit attached to their hiring should get them the jobs they couldn't have gotten on the basis of experience from federal programs...