L. 93–203) was a United States federal law enacted by the Congress, and signed into law by President Richard Nixon on December 28, 1973[1] to train workers and provide them with jobs in the public service.
[2] The bill was introduced as S. 1559, the Job Training and Community Services Act,[3] by Republican Representative Jack Kemp of New York.
Full-time jobs were provided for a period of 12 to 24 months in public agencies or private not for profit organizations.
The intent was to impart a marketable skill that would allow participants to move to an unsubsidized job.
[2] Inspired by the WPA's employment of artists in the service to the community in the 1930s, the San Francisco Arts Commission initiated the CETA/Neighborhood Arts Program in the 1970s, which employed painters, muralists, musicians, performing artists, poets and gardeners to work in schools, community centers, prisons and wherever their skills and services were of value to the community.