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for employment training. letty dominguez is back from cet, and also chris longoria is a board member of the center for employmenttraining. welcome back to the show. leticia dominguez: thank you. damian: well, you guys know how to celebrate milestones. chris, i'll start with you because, i mean, i remember your 25th you celebrated at the old macsa youth center, and that was a bash. i think 45 you brought little joe because that was a big deal. and talk about why it's important to celebrate these kinds of milestones. chris longoria: fifty years is just a key time for the cet organization. we were founded in 1967 in sal si puedes neighborhood in east san jose. and it's unusual and not very common to have an organization like ours, a non-profit, private non-profit, to have survived all these years. so, we want to make this celebration special, not only for the cet staff and people that work for cet, but for the community. and we're inviting a lot of the vips, people like los lobos will be the entertainers, and luis valdez will be the keynote speaker, godfather of chicano theater. you know, and having those, and you

and the center for american progress a huge think tank on the left is pushing expanded government employment programs could be a great tool for training and employing a much needed skilled labor force in the united states but some fear it could create a large and ineffective government bureaucracy handing out jobs that aren't adding value meanwhile others argue that universal basic income is the remedy to the current state of an ineffective welfare system but my gas. economics professor and program director at bard college points out the flaws in this and then lays out a plan check it out to jump into proposal is not a new proposal so i'm very encouraged that they have embraced the language and some of the rationale but it seems like what they're proposing is a bit more modest than what the actual job guarantee is the job period is a permanent standby a policy that often is directed to the unemployed in good times and in bad so even if the peak of the economic cycle we have about two people per every job opening so we'd need an employment program that will capture those unemployed people as well they're targeting him by the four point