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Peer reviewedColes, Gerald; Coppel, Lynn – Urban Education, 1982
Analyzes low literacy levels among Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) applicants in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Discusses how cutbacks in CETA funding will adversely affect attempts to decrease illiteracy among unemployed, low-income, urban adults. (GC)
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Employment Programs, Illiteracy, Poverty
