Is this the stimulus plan that was created to make new jobs? Next year when there is no money to pay for these positions, remember they will have to be funded again now that States have taken money for them. This means that we all pay higher taxes for summer jobs for kids. Somehow I do not think that these jobs are highly skilled labor forces that will promote the economy or make us a stronger nation economically. All it is doing is putting money into kids pockets that will help keep the movie and popcorn industry doing very well. Maybe that is why Hollywood types support these incentives so much?
President Barack Obama (AP Photo)
(CNSNews.com) - At least 12,000 jobs “created” by President Obama's stimulus package are summer jobs for young people, according to a White House report issued on May 27, 100 days after passage of the $787-billion American Reinvestment and Recovery Act.
The White House report, “100 Days, 100 Projects,” summarizes various projects on infrastructure, renewable energy and “jobs and job training.”
“In that time, we’ve obligated over $100 billion dollars, created more than 150,000 jobs and started important projects in every state and territory of America,” reads the report, written by Ed DeSeve, coordinator of recovery implementation at the White House.
Much of the information in the report's “jobs and job training” category concerns summer youth programs.
Meanwhile, Republicans critics have cited Department of Labor statistics showing that unemployment claims increased by 1.6 million in the first 100 days of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. That’s about 16,000 jobs lost per day.
“You want kids in the summer to be off the streets and making a little pocket change, but that kind of job, when it (the stimulus package) was sold, that is not what was contemplated,” Rep. Steven LaTourette (R-Ohio) told CNSNews.com.
“It has been reported, even though we’re 100 days into it, 6 percent [of the money] is out the door,” said LaTourette. “Now that I’m back in the state of Ohio, I can tell you, I meet with the contractors and the people who have the ability to put people to work and a lot of the contracts aren’t even out.”
Earlier this month, an Associated Press analysis of 5,500 transportation projects found that states are planning to spend 50 percent or more per person in areas with the lowest unemployment rather than in cities and towns with the highest unemployment.
The biggest of the youth jobs program is in Cleveland, where 7,000 teens will be employed to work summer jobs through a $6.4 million program funded by stimulus money. About $3 million went to support 2,500 summer teen jobs in Riverside County, Calif., according to the report. Another 200 California teens will get summer jobs as a result of a $465,000 stimulus grant to Yuba County.
More than 1,300 people ages 14-24 in northern Mississippi will have jobs under a youth employment program because of stimulus funds. In Rensselaer County, N.Y., the county will use $275,000 from stimulus money to hire 400 people for the summer youth jobs program, ages 14-24.
A stimulus grant to the Northwest Wisconsin Concentrated Employment Program will allow 220 teens to be hired for the summer at government agencies, non-profits, small businesses, hospitals and retail stores. About $441,000 in stimulus money going to the Cenralina Workforce Development Board in Salisbury, N.C. will cover the cost of 126 new employees ages 14-24 for the summer.
While the report did not specify the amount of funds or the number of jobs, it said that Elgin Community College in Illinois received stimulus money to create jobs for 16-24 year-olds to work on “green projects.” Also, stimulus money went to the Rocky Mountain Youth Corps to create temporary jobs for young people ages 19-25.
The White House report, “100 Days, 100 Projects,” summarizes various projects on infrastructure, renewable energy and “jobs and job training.”
“In that time, we’ve obligated over $100 billion dollars, created more than 150,000 jobs and started important projects in every state and territory of America,” reads the report, written by Ed DeSeve, coordinator of recovery implementation at the White House.
Much of the information in the report's “jobs and job training” category concerns summer youth programs.
Meanwhile, Republicans critics have cited Department of Labor statistics showing that unemployment claims increased by 1.6 million in the first 100 days of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. That’s about 16,000 jobs lost per day.
“You want kids in the summer to be off the streets and making a little pocket change, but that kind of job, when it (the stimulus package) was sold, that is not what was contemplated,” Rep. Steven LaTourette (R-Ohio) told CNSNews.com.
“It has been reported, even though we’re 100 days into it, 6 percent [of the money] is out the door,” said LaTourette. “Now that I’m back in the state of Ohio, I can tell you, I meet with the contractors and the people who have the ability to put people to work and a lot of the contracts aren’t even out.”
Earlier this month, an Associated Press analysis of 5,500 transportation projects found that states are planning to spend 50 percent or more per person in areas with the lowest unemployment rather than in cities and towns with the highest unemployment.
The biggest of the youth jobs program is in Cleveland, where 7,000 teens will be employed to work summer jobs through a $6.4 million program funded by stimulus money. About $3 million went to support 2,500 summer teen jobs in Riverside County, Calif., according to the report. Another 200 California teens will get summer jobs as a result of a $465,000 stimulus grant to Yuba County.
More than 1,300 people ages 14-24 in northern Mississippi will have jobs under a youth employment program because of stimulus funds. In Rensselaer County, N.Y., the county will use $275,000 from stimulus money to hire 400 people for the summer youth jobs program, ages 14-24.
A stimulus grant to the Northwest Wisconsin Concentrated Employment Program will allow 220 teens to be hired for the summer at government agencies, non-profits, small businesses, hospitals and retail stores. About $441,000 in stimulus money going to the Cenralina Workforce Development Board in Salisbury, N.C. will cover the cost of 126 new employees ages 14-24 for the summer.
While the report did not specify the amount of funds or the number of jobs, it said that Elgin Community College in Illinois received stimulus money to create jobs for 16-24 year-olds to work on “green projects.” Also, stimulus money went to the Rocky Mountain Youth Corps to create temporary jobs for young people ages 19-25.
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