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Opponents of CETA funding, however, argue that many people employed in the program are not learning a craft, but are only filling menial jobs. They are thus not gaining the kind of work experience that prepares them for better positions. For those who are indeed learning a skill, like McIntyre, there is no guarantee that they will be hired in economically strapped Erie...
...just one of many ugly incidents of racism that have erupted in France as a result of growing tensions over the presence in the country of more than 4 million immigrants, mostly from Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco. More than half are unskilled laborers who work at construction and menial jobs long snubbed by French workers in prosperous times. As unemployment figures have soared, however, the French have come to resent the immigrants as job stealers. Adding to the resentment is the increased burden on education, and a popular feeling that crime rates among immigrants are high. Scrawled on brick walls...
Both the Dental and Business Schools have been forced to deny students work-study money. "We have a few students who have incurred their loan limit, and need another source of money," Baker said, adding that several would decline a non-work-study job because they "see it as menial labor...
...linguistic training. They often cannot speak English--and everywhere these immigrants turn, their language is a roadblock. Cambridge has a bilingual department and bilingual training in its scholls, but it cannot serve every Hispanic in the city. The language barrier prevents many immigrants from obtaining any but the most menial jobs, and hampers their efforts to obtain social services. For several years a coalition of minority groups, including Hispanics, has tried to get interpreters at the Cambridge Hospital, but the hospital, like many city facilities, cannot afford to hire many translators...
...convention headquarters, the volunteers remain quiet. Deprived of substantial responsibility by their appointed bosses, they secretly hope for an open convention but keep their opinions secret. Menial tasks take on increase importance. They talk about convention buses and hotel reservations. When conversation turns to Carter versus Kennedy politics, it's far easier to talk about how many credentials are being printed. Or about which colors will look best on the convention floor...