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Article: Reagan's job-training plan - how it's working.
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- U.S. News & World Report
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- October 22, 1984
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Michael Shafnacker is earning a little more than half of what he made during a stint as a merchant seaman, but he has no complaints about his new job as a computer programer or the federally funded training that made it possible.
Shafnacker, a 32-year-old resident of Weymouth, Mass., holds a college degree and worked as a commercial diver before learning his new trade under the Job Training Partnership Act.
Launched a year ago as the Reagan administration's replacement for the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), the 3.6-billion-dollar-a-year JTPA program is winning accolades from many participants who have parlayed their training into jobs. ...