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Since its inception in 1973, the Comprehensive Youth Employment Act (CETA) has provided jobs for disadvantaged youths. Yet participation in the program has not enhanced future work eligibility, because private employers apparently do not value experience from government-created jobs. At a cost significantly lower than CETA's $13,000 per full-time job, the tax credit program would help a teenager get his foot in the door of private-sector employment...
...addition the savage Reagan as such on the Federal budget has cost plenty of jobs. He has "zeroed out" Federal job-creation programs like CETA and the Community Services Administration. In June, the President vetoed a bill by Rep. Henry B. Gonzales (DTex) to aid the embattled housing industry--thus thwarting potential recovery in the slumping timber and construction industries. And the President most recently showed his animus toward "quick fix" job creation by vetoing a $14.1 billion supplemental appropriations bill because it contained a "budget-busting" senior citizens employment program...
...only compound the problems. According to a report released by Cambridge Community Services Inc., the city lost $1.2 million in training and public service employment subsidies in the fiscal year ending June 30. Six Middlesex County towns, including Cambridge have lost $5.9 million in Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) funding during the same period. Six thousand fewer people received federal services as a result. In addition, the local CETA administration reports that it has experienced a drop of almost 20 percent in the number of people it places in jobs after completion of training programs because of general caution...
...near future, allowing businesses to occupy these revitalization sites. "The city is bursting at the seams," says Barbara Sullivan of the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce. "You can only hold back development for so long," she adds John Conally, executive director of the Private Industry Council, which works with CETA officials to locate private sector jobs, says. "I believe the upturn will happen shortly. If the government program [to improve the economy] doesn't do it, business will take the bull by the horns...
Marlene Seltzer, executive director of the Middlesex County CETA affiliate, says, "We have got a whole lot of training to do." She adds that her agency, which now relies on federal funding to train unskilled workers for jobs in computers and electronics, can only service about 850 people a year. Seltzer promises to present broader job-training and employment proposals to the council in July...