Title VII, 1978

Summary: In order to provide a richer understanding of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), this series has been broken down by the different titles of CETA as well as by local and national CETA programs.

This series documents Chernick's national and local involvement with the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA). CETA was enacted in 1973 as a means of curtailing unemployment and employing those workers considered unemployable. This legislation shifted control of manpower services from the federal government to state and local agencies. Title I established manpower services, jobs, and job training; Title II established transitional public employment programs; Title III established manpower programs for Indians, migrants, and youth as well as supervising research and overseeing experimental programs; Title IV continued the Job Corps; Title V established the National Manpower Commission; Title VI stipulated the conditions governing work; and Title VII ensured that there was not discrimination in any program. CETP, the Committee on Evaluation of Employment and Training Program, was established by the National Research Council in 1974 to assess the effectiveness of CETA programs. CETP covers Titles II and VI of CETA. MCCETA and UCCETA are the individual CETA programs for Middlesex and Union counties, respectively.

This series includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, notes, publications, questionnaires, and reports as related to each of the titles and programs. Certain pieces of correspondence have been kept in this series as opposed to placing them in the Correspondence series because they related to CETA and may have been misunderstood if moved to another series.

Included in this series are several reports written by William Mirengoff on CETA's effectiveness and ability to tackle the unemployment problem in the United States. Also found in this series are articles and pamphlets written by Chernick's and Mirengoff's contemporaries on the effectiveness of CETA.