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...turned up dozens of other examples of questionable activities in the $92.5 million-a-year South Florida jobs program, which is jointly administered by officials from Dade and Monroe counties and the cities of Hialeah, Miami and Miami Beach, and financed by the federal Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA...
Founded in 1973 and instructed by Congress to decentralize the federal manpower training programs, CETA has grown rapidly and is now the Government's chief program for fighting unemployment. The agency's 1978 budget is about $12 billion-almost three times the amount spent for the War on Poverty at its peak in the 1960s. Partly because of loose federal supervision, there have been several scandals involving CETA funds, notably in Chicago, Cleveland, Denver and New Orleans...
...nowhere have there been more flagrant cases of nepotism, patronage and mismanagement in CETA-financed activities, which are supposed to benefit only the poor, than in South Florida. Some examples...
...statewide out of a total of 1.2 million, plus an additional 76,000 federally funded employees. Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley proposed layoffs of 8,300 city employees (out of 49,349), including 1,600 cops. More than half will be trainees recently hired under the Federal Government's CETA (for Comprehensive Employment Training Act), which is aimed at helping unskilled, unemployed people, many of whom are black...
What we should do, he says, is enact ambitious but limited ones. Jones asks fellow businessmen to support the CETA (for Comprehensive Employment and Training Act) programs, which subsidize companies to hire and train the unskilled young. He applauds Carter's call for $400 million in the '79 budget to expand that work...