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Joseph Lilley, 41, drives a van for Erie Independence House, a home for twelve handicapped people in Erie, Pa. He earns $4 an hour for a 40-hour work week, and his salary is paid by the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), the federal jobs and job-training program founded in 1973. With four children and a wife on welfare, Lilley considers himself lucky to hold the CETA-funded post. "Before this job, I was on welfare," says Lilley. "I probably would have trouble finding another job because I have a prison record. CETA helps people like myself...
...Robert Harrison, executive director of the John F. Kennedy Center, a community organization that provides social services to about 3,000 families and employs six CETA workers, about 15% of its staff. Harrison predicts that the center will be forced to reduce sharply its day care and youth recreation programs, as well as curtail the hours of its health clinic. Howard Mclntyre, 31, earns $30 a week while learning to be a machine-tool operator in a CETA training program; he now fears that he is headed for the unemployment line. "I got laid off two years ago because...
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...
Even some FHA supporters concede that the program is not very efficient, since it helps relatively few people. Consider the town of Mount Auburn, Iowa, which needed a new water system to replace its shallow and inadequate wells. Mount Auburn turned to FHA, which provided $395,000 in grants and $140,000 in low-interest loans to build a new water system-for 187 residents. In Benton County, FHA spent $5 million to help an area with only 22,000 people...
...major criticism of the program is that FHA subsidizes inefficiency by providing marginal farmers with enough funds so that they will not have to quit the land. Contends John Lawlor, executive vice president of the Citizen State Bank in Belle Plaine: "They've kept people in business who should have been carrying a lunch pail." But Vernon Nelson, FHA supervisor for Benton County, is proud that his loans have contributed to the success of farmers who just need a little help in competing with the conglomerate operators. The argument over FHA boils down to one of practicality vs. sentiment...