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ERIC Number: ED173583
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1979-Feb
Pages: 18
Abstractor: N/A
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: N/A
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Vocational Education, CETA, and Youth Unemployment: Meeting the Needs of Inner City Youth. Occasional Paper No. 50.
Moody, Tom
The Mayor of Columbus, Tom Moody, spoke on his views of CETA, unemployment, and vocational education. In his opinion, all required and most optional education should be vocational education; that is, it should equip people to be able to support themselves, to earn a living, and to be productive in our society. He pointed out several "fallacies" that related to the policy of full employment, such as the assumptions that all people want to work and that all jobs must offer upward mobility. In his discussion of the CETA programs in Columbus he described the operations of the various programs, such as SPEDY (Summer Program for Economically Disadvantaged Youth), the Job Corps, and the Young Adult Conservation Corps. While he recognized the need for training the disadvantaged, he felt that the programs often overlap and are not set up to use their funding in the most effective manner. These problems, he thought, may result from the motivation of politicians to acquire as much federal aid as possible for their constituency. After his speech, he answered questions on the issues he had raised. (ELG)
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Opinion Papers; Speeches/Meeting Papers
Education Level: N/A
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: Ohio State Univ., Columbus. National Center for Research in Vocational Education.
Identifiers - Location: Ohio (Columbus)
Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A