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The original documents are located in Box D30, folder "Breakfast Club, Grand Rapids,
MI, October 21, 1970" of the Ford Congressional Papers: Press Secretary and Speech File
at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
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Remarks by Rep. Gerald R. Ford before the Grand Rapids Breakfast Club, Wednesday morning,
Oct. 21, 1970.
maffice Copy
As community leaders you are particularly interested in Federal legislation which
has a direct impact on the local community and may well lead to a better life for
individuals and for all of our citizens.
I would therefore like to talk with you this morning about a key Administration
bill
on which the Congress will complete action after the present congressional
recess. I am speaking of the Comprehensive Manpower Act of 1970, a vital piece of
legislation. I predict enactment of this bill before the end of the year.
The Mappower Act is a parts of President Nixon's New Federalism, an integral
turning
part of a program aimed at
some of the power
back to the States and local
communities from the Federal Government.
In addition, it promises to greatly improve the overall operation of the various
government job training and placement programs.
Since 1961, the Bederal Congress remorrs has created a maze of job training and placement
programs, e ach intended to meet a particular need at a particular time. Today we have
a
patchwork of disconnected programs with duplication of services,
proliferation
of funding,
incompatible program standards and overcentralization of
administration at the Federal level. In short, we have a manpower system which is
competing against itself.
In August 1969 as part of his comprehensive package of social reforms President
Nixon proposed a complete revamping of our manpower system. The Senate has passed such
a bill. Immediately after the current recess, on Nov. 17, the House is scheduled to
take up H.R. 19519, which is designed to c arry out the President's objectives.
H.R.19519
Title I of
consolidates the authority and funds from the two principal
existing manpower training statubes the Manpower Development and Training Act
of 1962
and the Economic Opportunity Act. Its decentralizes responsibility for planning and
administering manpower programs, giving it to governors and community officials. It
decategorizes major existing programs and gives local planners the flexibility to shape
available re source to meet individual needs.
Title II of H.R. 19519 establishes a new program for upgrading the skills of employed
workers to move them to more responsible and better-paying jobs. With these workers
moving up, jobs are opened up at the entry-level for new employes.
Title III of the bill creattes a program of public service employment as a supplement
to manpower training and placement efforts in the private sector. This is badly needed
legislation which fills an obvious gap. It will provide meaningful jobs for those who
cannot obtain regular employment in the private or public sector. This is not "make work.'
FORD
subsidized job to one in the private or public sector.
It is designed to develop a participant's skills and then move him from a federably- GERAL
an unsubsidized
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Title IV of H. R. 19519 will create a national computerized job bank to match
people with jobs.
Title IV also provides for other activities designed to improve
the delivery of manpower services, increase our knowledge of
manpower needs and uses, and to augment the ability of the States and local communities
to carry out effective manpower programs.
As we move from a wartime to a peacetime economy, it is imperative that we
coordinate our Federal, State and local efforts in the area of manpower
training and placement.
This is one of our greatest challenge S as we deal with the problems of inflation
and unemployment. We can meet that challenge with the help of the Comprehensive
Manpower Act of 1970.
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