State to review Job Training Act
By EDITH WOOTEN
Tar Heel Staff Writer .
Reaganomics, a shift to supply-side economics which em
phasizes private industry and de-emphasizes government regu
lation, has come up with another innovation.
This time it concerns job training and employment for the
poor and unemployed.
The Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) passed by Con
gress last October replaces the Comprehensive Employment
and Training Act (CETA).
Jim Lott, who worked with CETA and is the director of
North Carolina's Job Training Coordinating Council, which
decided the policy for JTPA, said the new program will en
courage more participation from the private sector.
The coordinating council will include more members from
the business sector than it has in the past.
Lott said that with more "hard-headed businessmen in
volved, the program would probably be run more efficiently
and be better organized."
There are representatives from three groups: heads of state
agencies, members of local government and leaders in private
industry.
The council will examine the needs of the disadvantaged and
unemployed throughout the state and figure out methods to
deal with these problems. ;
"We hope that by involving the private sector we can come
up with programs that are more attractive to business people,"
Lott said. v - ; ; . ;. " :
Lott said that although most of the programs would still be
in operation, such as in-school youth career, vocational coun
seling and remedial education, adult skills and basic education,
and on the job training, payments would change.
"Instead of paying a stipend to individuals attending a train
ing course, JTPA will pay the industry that hired a person
through the agency half of its training cost," he said. .
This would probably be a more cost efficient way to run the
program, but he said that the people who needed the service
the most, the poorest of the poor, would suffer.
"Those "who don't have any way of supporting themselves
while they are attending class or learning a new skill will be
hurt the most," he said. '
The new act calls for a series of checks and balances to
determine the success of the various programs.
The state will calculate the average cost of training for those
who get jobs through the program. It will also average wage
change upon entrance and conclusion.
"With CETA," Lott said, "you got money whether you did
a. good or bad job. The JTPA will be funded according to its
performance standards."
Service areas will include a population of 200,000 rather
than the 100,000 limit CETA used,
. "This will combine some cities and counties that have been
funded separately in the past," Lott said.
Funding for the program is determined by a national formu
la; the state and local governments have no influence over how
much money they get.
- The council's recommendations will be decided upon today.
Lott said he expects little if any change.
DWI
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have had to' drink, and the officer may do this in a
very casual manner," Kirkman said. "Unless you
have had absolutely nothing to drink, answering
that question could lead you into an expensive prob
lem, regardless of whether you are later convicted or
acquitted of driving while impaired."
Expensive, indeed. According to Dorothy Bern
holz, director of SLS, just being charged and ac
quitted a process involving up fo four judicial
hearings will cost a lot because attorneys are being
recommended not to take a DWI case for less than
$1,000. Currently, the usual minimum fee for han
dling a DUI case is $250, Bernholz said.
; The costs of being convicted of a DWI offense
would be even higher, and in more than financial
terms, Kirkman said.
Now, few people are jailed for drunken driving,
but Kirkman said the new law "takes away much of
the power of judges when assessing punishment."
Instead, the law outlines five levels of punishment
which require jail time, communityservice, andor
fines, which have been increased, Kirkman said.
. A judge will determine which of the five levels the
driver will be tried under based on the aggravating
nd mitigating factors involved in the case, Kirkman
said. ' .
Levels one and two involving aggravating fac
tors such as a previous DUI conviction within the
past seven years will carry the most severe penal
ties. Punishment for level one if at least 14 days and
no more than two years in jail and a fine up to
$2,000 or both. Level two punishment is half that of
level one, Kirkman said.
In levels three through five involving mitigating
factors such as a good driving record a judge has
spme discretion in deciding at what level the defen
dant should be tried and sentenced, but Kirkman
said these levels still cany mandatory sentencing
requirements of jail terms, community service or
both.' . . .- ' .,'- r. -
Such tough penalties have prompted praise from
'. those dedicated to reducing the drunken driving
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debate to produce is also being criticized for its
shortcomings. v
Kirkman said the new law places even more stress
on the controversial Breathalyzer machine. An ex-N
pert at the workshop he attended noted 127 ways the
machine can go wrong, Kirkman said.
", Other criticism of the new law is aimed at its fail
ure to "appropriate one penny more" for its en
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Bernholz said. v " ; :
The law will also mean more litigation at a time
when judges are already complaining about their
caseload, Kirkman added.
. Criticism of the law is coming also from the pri
vate sector as restaurant and bar owners continued
to resist the dramshop provision and the increased
drinking age.
Under the final watered-down version, proprie
tors will be liable only for selling alcohol to minors
who are involved in accidents. But Mickey Ewell,
owner of Spanky's and a member of the N.C. Rest
aurant Association, said the association would con
tinue to lobby against the liability laws.
V Ewell also said there will be problems -with the
drinking age being raised because the law will not
stop 1 8-year-olds- from drinking.
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