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...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...
...target for the ax is the $12 billion that the Government provides to states and cities under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act so that they can hire the unemployed for public service jobs. The CETA program has been roundly criticized for putting workers into jobs that provide no useful training for employment in the private economy. None theless, CETA cuts would anger blacks, who regard the program as of potential benefit to ghetto youths, and organized labor, which already is very unhappy with Carter. Last week AFL-CIO President George Meany denounced the Stage II wage-price guidelines...
...cities with high unemployment last year received $1.3 billion in extra federal funds for job-generating public works projects ran into trouble in the House and was allowed to die by Speaker Tip O'Neill. The cities could take consolation, however, in last-minute continuation of the CETA program, under which 725,000 public service jobs were funded this year at a cost of $11 billion. If Administration forecasts of a 5.7% unemployment rate next year are accurate, the program will provide about 660,000 jobs, 65,000 fewer than the White House wanted...
After calling some 800 witnesses and studying 29 local CETA efforts, the Dade County grand jury cited testimony indicating that the South Florida program "felt itself politically obligated to respond favorably to numerous requests from officials of county government." Adds Assistant State Attorney Thomas Petersen: "There was all this money for all these programs, but no one had time to plan or evaluate them. The wrong people ended up benefiting...
...people have been fired from their CETA jobs in South Florida as ineligible for the program and another 14 are being investigated for fraud. The Department of Labor recently ordered a team of investigators to begin auditing the entire South Florida program. But while its problems are serious, the program is surely not the only one of CETA'S 2,800 local projects afflicted by mismanagement. Says a Labor Department official with a sigh: "It would take an army, everybody in the department, to check on each of them...