Public Service Employment Act

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Public Service Employment Act - Declares the findings of Congress that the Nation has failed to fulfill a commitment to assure maximum levels of employment through public policy and that many persons who have become unemployed or underemployed as a result of technological changes or as a result of shifts in the pattern of Federal expenditures could usefully be employed in providing needed public service. Declares it to be the purpose of this Act to provide such unemployed and underemployed persons with employment in jobs providing needed public services and appropriate training and related services. Authorizes to be appropriated to carry out this Act $3,000,000,000 for fiscal year 1975; $7,000,000,000 for fiscal year 1976; and $10,000,000,000 for fiscal year 1977, and for each fiscal year thereafter, such funds to remain available for obligation and expenditure until expended. States that financial assistance under this Act may be provided by the Secretary of Labor only pursuant to applications submitted by eligible sponsors which are prime sponsors under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act or which are Indian tribes on Federal or State reservations which include areas of…