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CETA: A '70s Government Jobs Program That Didn't Work
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyIn the late 1970s in the Jimmy Carter administration, I had a ringside seat for the political collapse of the last modern attempt to replicate a massive New Deal jobs program. This repudiation of public service employment marked the symbolic end of 20th century big government liberalism, although as an aide to Secretary of Labor Ray Marshall I only dimly sensed the coming Reagan Revolution. Normally, this is not a story that turns me into a prized raconteur at dinner parties. But this half-forgotten attempt to deal with the human cost of high unemployment (7.5 percent when Carter took office) ...
With 16 Million Jobless, Should the Feds Pay People to Work?
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyThe phrase "public jobs" carries decades of baggage, from the Great Depression of the 1930s to the "workfare" programs of the 1980s. But with nearly 16 million people unemployed and a recovery that's halting at best, there's growing pressure on the federal government to get directly into the job-creation business. "There are people who need work and there is much work to be done," Deepak Bhargava, executive director of the Center for Community Change, said this week in making the case for a $40 billion public jobs program.The feds already have offered tax cuts and tax credits to spur all kinds ...
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