Job Training Act Earns Raves, Reservations; Quayle Touts 5-Year-Old Program, but Cosponsor Kennedy Plays Down Its Impact

From: The Washington Post | Date: September 18, 1988| Author: | Copyright information

At almost every campaign stop Republican vice presidential nominee Dan Quayle gives a statistical recitation on the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA), the law he helped push through Congress to try to deal with a double-digit unemployment rate in the depths of the 1982 recession. The legislation, he tells his audiences, is the new federalism of a modern America.

Quayle told the Kalamazoo, Mich., area Rotary Club last week that, unlike its predecessor programs with their make-work public service jobs and heavy-handed federal bureacracy, JTPA "is better balanced and fits better the design ...

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