Youth Employment Act of 1979

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Youth Employment Act of 1979 - Title I: Amendments to Title IV of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act - Establishes a program of guarantees of employment and training for disadvantaged youth under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA). Ends the program of demonstration projects designed to demonstrate the efficacy of the employment guarantee program. Adds, as a condition of eligibility for participation in such program, the requirement that a disadvantaged youth be from a rural or urban "poverty area" as such term is described in this Act. Directs the Secretary of Labor to enter into arrangements with public and nonprofit private agencies to provide employment and training services under this Act when no application of a prime sponsor has been submitted or approved, or when the approval of a prime sponsor has been terminated. Directs the Secretary to submit to Congress a plan for the establishment of such youth incentive entitlement programs throughout the United States by a specified date. Authorizes appropriations for the payment of prime sponsor entitlements for programs under this Act for fiscal years 1981 through 1984. Authorizes the use of up to 20 pe…