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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 30, 1987)
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Kerens said legislators must make a choice between getting $50 for their constituents who have jobs, or using that money to make new jobs for their con stituents who do not. The program proposed by Kerens is called the Wage in Open 24 Hours kinko's Great copies Great people 860 E. 1 5th '344-7894 NOMINATION FORM FOR 1987 FACULTY AWARDS FOR DISTINGUISHED TEACHING Nominations are being accepted for I9K7 awards to (JO faculty members for distinguished leaching. This year there I will be two Ersted awards and three Burlington-Northern awards made at the Spring Commencement exercise. Each of the Ersted awards will be accompanied by a gift of $1,000 and each of the Burlington-Northern awards will be ac I companled by a gift of $2,000. Nominations may be submitted by students, faculty, staff, and alumni, jou may use the form below or send a letter of nomination to: Joseph Hynes, Vice-Provost, 103 Johnson Hall Please send no later than February 27, 1987 ELIGIBILITY FOR AWARDS Ersted Awards Faculty members who are at relatively early stages in their teaching careers. Burlington-Northern Awards Faculty members who have held academic rank at the University for a least 7 years. I nominate__ for one of the 1987 teaching awards. The* reasons for this nominations are as follows: (attach additional sheet, if necessary) Signature of Nominator__ Address_ Please indicate ymir status ( ) I acuity ( ) Student ( Phone ) Alum centive Program and would be expected to create 20,000 new jobs for Oregon workers in the next biennium, he said. About 12.000 of those jobs would be permanent. The jobs program would cost $105.6 million over the next two years. That money would come from the $136 million surplus kicker. But Gov. Neil Goldschmidt has said he thinks the surplus kicker money should be return ed to the taxpayers. At a press conference Thurs day, representatives from a broad coalition of groups spoke in support of the Wage Incen tive Program. The program would be modeled after a successful job creation program developed in Minnesota. Unemployed workers would qualify for the program after they exhausted all their unemployment insurance and worker compensation benefits. Employers would receive money and resources necessary to create new jobs when they agreed not to reduce their regular work force and to keep the new employee for a minimum of 26 weeks. The business would receive up to $4 an hour in wages and up to $1 an hour in fringe benefits to subsidize the new employee’s wages. The business would have to repay 70 percent of the money receiv ed under the program if the new employee’s job did not continue after the 26-week period. If the new employee stays on the job for one year beyond the 26-week period, the business would not have to repay the money. r f Send some fun with j a few strings attached. i ! fmtbe | — The University Florist — . 610 E. 13th at Patterson • 485-3655 Grattan Kerans The program would benefit Oregon’s small businesses as well as the unemployed, said Rep, Shirley Gold, I)-Fortland. “My district — a typical city district — is almost totally small business entrepreneurs. In con versations with them I find that...like families who can’t afford what they need, the small businesses do without needed employees.” Another proposal to help Oregon’s unemployed was presented by Rep. Darlene Hooley. D-West Linn. Thurs day. Hooley proposed a pro gram designed by the Voluntary Welfare Work Programs Task Force, which calls for a revamp ing of the current state job train ing program. The proposal calls for $12.6 million to be added to the cur rent jobs program in this biennium. The revamping would allow unemployed workers to spend up to two years in the job train ing program. Park Continued from Page 3 is in fact going to be a public process,” Dix said. About 20 people have con sistently opposed the project, Obie said. "Really, I think they’re saying they don’t agree with the process,” he said. “What we’ve agreed upon is that the Riverfront project will proceed forward,” said Rep. Carl Hosticka. “But we’ll also be working with others to make sure it’s done right,” he said. Dix also denied that Lane County and Portland were team ing up to get the biggest share of the lottery dollars. “If we’re to support this pro ject, we’ve got an obligation to support the other regional pro jects in the state,” Dix said. Goldschmidt has proposed a $7.5 million down payment to fund the Portland Convention Center. “The suggestion that Eugene is getting more than its fair share 1 don’t really unders i tand,” he said. 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