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2. Comprehensive Employment and Training Act - Wikipedia

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   artist relief, art jobs program, federal artist employment, public art Status: Repealed The Comprehensive Employment and Training Act ( CETA , Pub. L. 93–203 ) was a United States federal law enacted by the Congress , and signed into law by President Richard Nixon on December 28, 1973 [ 1 ] to train workers and provide them with jobs in the ...

3. Job guarantee - Wikipedia

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   Eleanor Roosevelt onsite one of the Works Progress Administration Projects, a job guarantee program in the United States. A job guarantee is an economic policy proposal that aims to create full employment and price stability by having the state promise to hire unemployed workers as an employer of last resort (ELR). [1]

4. Works Progress Administration - Wikipedia

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   At its peak in 1938, it supplied paid jobs for three million unemployed men and women, as well as youth in a separate division, the National Youth Administration. Between 1935 and 1943, the WPA employed 8.5 million people (about half the population of New York). [3] Hourly wages were typically kept well below industry standards.

5. Employer of last resort - Wikipedia

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   A scheme was proposed by the Urban Coalition in the mid-1960s and received some support in the US Senate but was opposed by Lyndon B. Johnson. [2]More recently L. Randall Wray suggested a proposal for the US where workers would be subject to federal work rules, jobs would be tailored to individuals' existing skills, and the US Labor Department would assess proposals for employment and keep a ...

6. Workfare - Wikipedia

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   Workfare is a governmental plan under which welfare recipients are required to accept public-service jobs or to participate in job training. [1] Many countries around the world have adopted workfare (sometimes implemented as "work-first" policies) to reduce poverty among able-bodied adults; however, their approaches to execution vary. [2]

7. Employment Act of 1946 - Wikipedia

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   Unemployment levels remained fairly steady after the passing of the act. After 1970, however, the economy began to fluctuate and unemployment rates rose again. The same fears that motivated the creation of the act in 1946 precipitated an amendment in 1978, entitled the Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act. This act was identical in spirit to ...