Public Service Employment: Hearings, Ninetieth Congress, Second Session ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1968 - 199 pages |
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AFL-CIO agencies American American Jewish Congress Bayard Rustin bill CARSTENSON Chairman cities Civil Disorders Commission committee community service employment CONGRES CONGRESS THE LIBRARY Congressman Corporation cost create Economic Opportunity Act employed employers employment opportunities ERLENBORN Farmers Union Federal Government full employment funds ghetto going Goldfinger grants Green Thumb Guaranteed Employment Act guaranteed minimum income hard-core unemployed HATHAWAY hire income job training kind Labor legislation LIBRARY OF CONGRESS manpower programs Mayor LINDSAY meaningful MEANY ment million NATIONAL FARMERS UNION Negroes nonprofit O'HARA organizations percent persons ployment poverty President prime sponsor private sector problem proposed public service employment PUCINSKI QUIE require Reverend SCHULZ rural areas Rustin SCHEUER Secretary service employment program skills social society statement STEIGER subcommittee talking testimony Thank tion training programs underemployed unem wage welfare workers York York City
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Page 97 - The Congress hereby declares that it is the continuing policy and responsibility of the Federal Government to use all practicable means consistent with its needs and obligations and other essential considerations of national policy, with the assistance and cooperation of industry, agriculture, labor, and state and local governments, to coordinate and utilize all its plans, functions and resources.
Page 18 - SNOWB) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor A BILL To amend the Older Americans Act of 1965 to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 1985, 1986, and 1987, and for other purposes.
Page 97 - Employment Act of 1946". DECLARATION OF POLICY SEC. 2. The Congress hereby declares that it is the continuing policy and responsibility of the Federal Government to use all practicable means consistent with its needs and obligations and other essential considerations of national policy, with the assistance and cooperation of industry, agriculture, labor, and State and local governments, to coordinate and utilize all its plans, functions, and resources for the purpose of creating and maintaining,...
Page 138 - What white Americans have never fully understood — but what the Negro can never forget— is that white society is deeply implicated in the ghetto. White institutions created it, white institutions maintain it, and white society condones it.
Page 129 - The Select Subcommittee on Labor of the House Committee on Education and Labor will come to order.
Page 139 - Convocation calls upon all Americans to apply the same determination to these programs that they have to past emergencies. We are confident that, given this commitment, our society has the ingenuity to allocate its resources and devise the techniques necessary to rebuild cities and still meet our other national obligations without impairing our financial integrity. Out of past emergencies, we have drawn strength and progress. Out of the present urban crisis we can build cities that are places, not...
Page 137 - ... without reducing existing levels of employment or undercutting existing labor standards or wages which prevail for comparable work or services in the area but are not less than the federal minimum wage. Such a program should seek to qualify new employees to become part of the regular work force and to meet normal performance standards.
Page 133 - ... parks and recreation, water services, highway maintenance, police and fire protection, etc. With rare exception, the jobs to be had in government are vital to the functioning of the society and the community, and the services provided by government employees are deemed desirable by the citizenry. The critical point is that the need for the services to be provided is the underlying justification for public service employment — not merely the fact that such a need naturally calls for persons...
Page 130 - ... broad program of urban reconstruction and advocacy of appropriate public and private action to move toward these objectives, including the goal of rehabilitation and construction of at least a million housing units for lower-income families annually. This Convocation calls upon the nation to create educational programs that will equip all young Americans for full and productive participation in our society to the full potential of their abilities.
Page 182 - As you may know, there is talk about giving every family an income of at least $3,200 a year, which would be the amount for a family of four. If the family earns less than this, the Government would make up the difference. Would you favor or oppose such a plan?