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...professional supply-side economists are not against social and anti-poverty programs: Reagan isn't even a good supply-sider. He is trying to implement opinions that were proved wrong at least 50 years ago, to cut welfare, food stamps. CETA jobs and training, and force poor people to earn honest livings in drug-dealing, prostitution, car theft and mugging. Some may find good careers as Mafia executives. In applying for jobs, poor people should be persuasive--would a Saturday Night Special be sufficient? No, I don't like Reagan's policies. Reaganomics is very socially destructive--it is class...
...program as "a hodgepodge of crank monetarism and bizarre macroeconomic nostrums," and urged the White House to take immediate steps to ease unemployment. Among the AFL-CIO'S recommendations: revive the emergency local public works program, budgeted at $6 billion in 1975 but not funded since then; restore CETA public service jobs; and create a new reconstruction finance corporation that would extend loans, loan guarantees and tax benefits to hard-hit companies in basic industries. The union also wants to get more help for the long-term jobless by renewing the 13 weeks of nationwide unemployment benefits that...
Kirkland's call for action is being echoed in Congress, but members are divided on what should be done. Senators Kennedy and Quayle defend their $4 billion jobs program bill as sufficiently different from the much criticized CETA program to make it worthwhile. Their bill would forbid local governments to use the federal funds to hire their own employees, such as policemen or firemen. Local businesses would also have a say in setting up job-training programs, thus ensuring that prospective employees were not trained in skills that were no longer in demand...
...idea of free enterprise zones has a lot more going for it than just that. It is based on the sound notion that the ideal "welfare program" is a private sector job--not a government job for people who cannot find private employment; not a CETA-type training job, which in most cases trains people for jobs that do not exist. The idea of the program is to create real jobs...
Comprehensive Employment and Training Act. Though this program must abolish its 300,000 public service jobs by the end of this month, the Labor Department estimates that some 50% of CETA-funded workers have already found other jobs, most with state and local governments. New York City, for example, will shift about 6,000 of its 9,000 employees to the city payroll, at a cost of $78 million...