Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Work: The commission estimated that 3,000,000 U. S. youngsters between 16 and 24 today are unemployed. Three out of ten in Maryland were jobless, and some had been looking as long as seven years for their first full-time job. Median pay of the youngsters with jobs was...
Play: The commission found even youth's fun depressing. The reason: youth hunts fun mostly alone or in pairs instead of in groups. About one-half the boys and girls drink. One boy in eight spends most of his free time doing nothing.
A large part of U. S. youth today is apathetic, discontented, increasingly prone to look to the Federal Government to do its thinking and planning for it. Three-quarters think the Government should regulate wages and hours, nine out of ten think it should give unemployment relief. Only one in...
Concluding that youth's story is ominous for the future of democracy, the commission recommended more jobs, more education and guidance, more fun for Youth. Its warning: ''Unpleasant stories are told of operators of coal properties who . . . mine only the richer veins and leave the smaller ones...
*Howard M. Bell-American Youth Commission, American Council on Education, Washington, D. C.