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Show Fa ae pms Tere tf BN Te te = f i 3 oe arse st Saree . tA De sy fe o . 2 ‘> eae) Wht LP IRAAGIAS F.3 2 We 975 E. 3300 ae Suite 1 Tel: 486-9371 THE PEOPLE’S N EWSP AP ER, governmental, community, labor and business groups operating or planning projects. th project under the Department of Labor-Manpower Administration and the state of Utah. The program | received initial funding of $920,974. Mr. Arce-Larreta will Mr. to operate manpower specific persons in entry-level positions and functions included aiding the local programs in different cities as they were being planned, negotiated or reviewed; helping to plan comprehensive manpower systems; to up-grade 46 persons. preparing of proposals; setting up direct a staff of 12 to train 160 WHAT IS PSC? new projects; negotiating subcontracts; hiring staff; acquiring The Utah Public Service Careers (PSC) is a new manpower program and renovating facilities; buying and leasing equipment and initiating accounting and information systems. created to secure, within merit principles, permanent employment for disadvantaged persons in State agencies, to stimulate up-grading of current employees, and to deal with specific institutional, individual and environmental barriers that have The test to determine if prevented the employment of the disadvantaged in the public sector. individual is disadvantaged is: Member of poor family, PSC is not intended to circumvent Unemployed, underemployed, or handicap any merit personnel or hindered from seeking work, and civil service system in the state. It is,’ on the contrary, designed to support the State’s fair, open, and competitive merit system and the principles upon which they were founded. Institutional and _ individual barriers now prevent the most effective and efficient use of the human resources in public service. These include: outmoded job structures. Inadequate requirements, training systems. selection, and Insufficient staff or funds to modernize public personnel systems. Lack of necessary occupational - skills. Inadequate education. Poor orientation to the “world of work”. Medical, transportation, and child care problems. HOW DOES PSC WORK? The concept of “Hire now, train later” is fundamental to the PSC an Policy, the definition of the disadvantaged are: 1) Poor school drop-out without suitable employment, 2) Poor Doctors without suitable New New HOW TO ENROLL Counselors will meet with the entry-level positions, are persons certified as disadvantaged (as defined by the Department of Labor-Manpower Administration). Minimum age for enrollment is 18 years. There are no certifications of disadvantaged or minimum age 2 pageT ie S taneriaet wan Lioraries a Ps (9) August 20, 1970 NO) ¥ @ PE URT and Garth Jersey; Seattle, Cleveland, York City, San Juan, Puerto SLC, Utah 84106 establishment of of the Mr. Arce-Larreta has had several works published: Manpower Programs for the Spanish American, Executive the Community Action Agency, the Advisory Board to the Department of Employment Service and other numerous organizations as part of better familiarizing himself with the A View at the Alliance for Progress, “‘La Voz Guadalupana”, The Mexican American Drop Out, The Brown Power Movement in Utah, he and Understanding Minorities in Utah. He has received several grants dealt. ve Presently SOCIO has grown to and fellowships, two of which he is about 1,000 members with chapters most proud — University of Utah in five counties. It is recognized as National Traiming Laboratories, the voice of the Spanish-speaking Institute for Applied Behavorial population which numbers between Science in 1968 and Internship in the Manpower Assistance Program, 40,000 to 45,000. majority society with whom D.C. (1 of 12 interns has a_ basic ‘Washington, selected in the U.S.). languages, in His new position brings vast addition to speaking and writing [English and Spanish fluently. He graduated from responsibilities and challenges but the State is fortunate to have a man so capable of meeting and the University of Industrial Relations in studies in completed mastering them. | national study among of upward mobility current job. sons of farmers, laborers, To Dr. Moles, this fidine and service workers, IIEW’s Social ynderscores the importance of and Rehabilitation Service reports. efforts “to reduce the number of As many as two-thirds of these high school dropouts and increase sons in a sample studied by the number of young persons from researcher Oliver C. Moles were found to have higher-level and generally better-paying jobs than their fathers, either in skilled, semiskilled, or white-collar occupations. A son’s chances for job low income families who attend | college.” He also favors training programs that prepare men for higher level jobs, since “programs that only provide low level jobs to unemployed men do not seem to advancement, Dr. Moles also found, offer much prospect for improving were most favorable in cities of their occupational and _ earning 50,000 or more, excluding the 12 status.” Comparing the records of white largest metropolitan areas. More than eight in 10 of those who had persons and nonwhite (mostly moved to cities from rural areas Negroes), Dr. Moles found a held better jobs than their fathers striking difference. While 80 the country. percent of the white laborers’ sons - As the State President for the at the time of the study. Noting that a majority of these moved up, only about 50 percent Spanish-speaking Organization for Community Integrity and sons from poor families had been of the nonwhite did so. In his view, “both discrimination Opportunity (SOCIO) it was Mr. able to move up, Dr. Moles says his Arce-Larreta’s responsibility to find study “provides little support to and the lower occupational status solutions to the numerous the proponents of the ‘cycle of of their fathers may have retarded problems confronting the Mexican poverty’ theory, who say that being the largely urban Negroes included capacity he traveled existing Project Inc. is a non-profit private organization financed by the Ford Foundation and the Department of Labor, Manpower Administration. The function is to assist the Department of Labor and Ford to develop, implement and improve problems and_ their poor is passed on from generation jn the study from advancing.” ; The study sought to answer the to generation.” He eee his findings in an question of why some men move article, “Up From Poverty,” in the up while others remain at the and Rehabilitation Service Jooking imediate solutions. The most urgent magazine, “Welfare in Review.” His goals were in the areas of housing, work.is based on information from employment, discrimination, 3,000 heads of family “spending units” compiled for a nationwide education and planning. He devoted his efforts to bring study of economic behavior. One cycle that cropped up in the federal programs into the ghettos was the link between and to work closely with private study industry and State, Federal and city education, first full-time job, and comprehensive manpower programs agencies. He was able to work with and systems throughout the United the Department of Employment Spe StI. 4 SF BULK RATE U.S. POSTAGE 3.39 PAID area. His previous work with extensively through the State of Manpower Assistance Project, Inc. Utah visiting and establishing local since October 1968 to June 1969 chapters and meeting and discussing May-June 1970 issue of the Social economic level of their fathers by has covered many areas. Manpower Assistance the Levitan Recruitment and certification of Rico; the Virgin Islands, Baltimore, the enrollees will begin during the Olympia, Salem, Boise and last week of September, 1970. Washington, D.C. Those interested should contact the Mr. Arce-Larreta was one of Utah Public Service Careers main thirteen interns selected throughout office at 771 East 800 South, Salt op ta Utan 214? | Poverty 4) have taken place in Washington, : Poor older worker without suitable D.C. His MAP assignments have employment, 5) Poor handicapped worker without suitable included work in several programs of Manpower in the cities of employment. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Trenton, of this program, one must be aware American. of his extensive background in this In this for Sar ka Fd “+ 24 = Fae, Se LDC. a number of. having expertise of manpower and in close The theory that poverty breeds level of his beginning job—and the Antioch College. this field were poverty is disputed by a new higher that was, the better his employment, begin to train him for that job slot. enrollees, Relations, Mangum from the National Manpower Policy Task Force of Washington, D.C. minority member without suitable — In addition, he attended employment, 3) Poor youth numerous manpower seminars that potential enrollees and help them ' primary requirement of entry-level asses§ their vocational-educational hiring plans is that the employer needs and capacities. | hire the PSC enrollee into a To understand the value of budgeted position and immediately having Mr. Arce-Larreta in charge Eligible Labor has one or more of the following conjunction with characteristics (a) Scheoi major Universities drop-out, (b) Minority member, (c) in the field Under 22 years of age (d) 45 years development of age or over (e) Handicapped. association with The five basic combinations of The directors in Lake City, Utah, phone 328-5275. WHO CAN ENROLL? member Committee of Manpower Utah in 1) Management 2) Programs, Economics, and other. 1967 and or related subjects. | 3) Course work was conducted in program. State agencies have pledged 160 entry-level positions and 46 up-grading positions. A PSC will reimburse State agencies for allowable costs incurred in hiring and training disadvantaged persons and in upgrading personnel. in the Approximately 80% of his work time was spent im these functions.x Mr. Arce-Larrata The remaining 20% was spent in knowledge of three academic courses covering such requirements for upgrade enrollees. subjects as National Manpower Bre ge ten VYUUSGy Permit No. 2205 Administration in of Manpower minority positions and the hiring of Washington, D.C. in 1969. He is Spanish-speaking persons as affiliated with several professional societies and civic organizations in — interviewers. In the field of discrimination Mr. Utah and his past experience Arce-Larreta worked closely with includes teaching in the Voluntary the Anti-Discrimination Improvement Program, conducting Department of the Industrial classes in Spanish, lecturing for the Commission of Utah in Department of Sociology at the investigating numerous complaints University of Utah and serving as an received and found in_ housing, instructor at the University of Utah employment and education. He was Division of Continuing Education. a Arce-Larreta’s ge Bt AeA eM meba stage a Rae WN AAs EUS EES. Sed Volume1 No. 13 Sfis Security ; States. Under the direction of the Department of Labor and the Ford Foundation, MAP offers direct technical and training assistance to a state program aimed at training and up-grading disadvantaged persons. Mr. Jorge Arce-Larreta was appointed director of the . Public Service Careers Program, a 21 mon- ee2 i (Stw Director of State Agency For the first time in Utah, a minority has been named to direct OF Sa ie oe FR bLonkeoe aa¥z ; RR” Editorial Be ‘ Ur > PONE vee ee - 2 present e- $c job ° status. e The 99 e education, ' at such place factors of as residence, ° present family and family of birth, previous job experience, geographic mobility. and Dr. Moles concludes that the factors studied are “important contributions to job mobility and ought to be seriously considered in more programs schooling a son had, the higher the poverty.” aimed at reducing |