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PUBLIC LAW 92-54-JULY 12, 1971

in providing needed public services; (5) it is appropriate during times of high unemployment to fill unmet needs for public services in such fields as environmental quality, health care, housing and neighborhood improvements, recreation, education, public safety, maintenance of streets, parks, and other public facilities, rural development, transportation, beautification, conservation, crime prevention and control, prison rehabilitation, and other fields of human betterment and public improvement; (6) programs providing transitional employment in jobs providing needed public services and related training and manpower services can be a useful component of the Nation's manpower policies in dealing with problems of high unemployment and dependency upon welfare assistance, and providing affected individuals with opportunities to develop skills and abilities to enable them to move into other public or private employment and other opportunities; and (7) providing resources for transitional public service employment and related training and manpower services during an economic slowdown can help as an economic stabilizer both to ease the impact of unemployment for the affected individuals and to reduce the pressures which tend to generate further unemployment. I t is therefore the purpose of this Act to provide unemployed and underemployed persons with transitional employment in jobs providing needed public services during times of high unemployment and, wherever feasible, related training and manpower services to enable such persons to move into employment or training not supported under this Act. FINANCIAL

ASSISTANCE

SEC. 3. (a) The Secretary of Labor shall enter into arrangements with eligible applicants in accordance with the provisions of this Act in order to make financial assistance available during times of high unemployment for the purposes of providing transitional employment for unemployed and underemployed persons in jobs providing needed public services, and training and manpower services related to such employment which are otherwise unavailable, and enabling such persons to move into employment or training not supported under this Act. (b) Not less than 85 per centum of the funds appropriated pursuant to this Act shall be expended only for wages and employment benefits to persons employed in public service jobs pursuant to this Act. ELIGIBLE

APPLICANTS

SEC. 4. Financial assistance under this Act may be provided by the

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