Word: on-the-job
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Part of the answer, at least for poorly educated youths, is in government-sponsored training programs or on-the-job subsidies to employers. The Canadian government helps pay for nine weeks of summer work for young people. France is working with private business on a program to create 400,000 jobs for youths. Italy is about to launch a $400 million job subsidy program. Britain pays employers about $17 a week for 26 weeks to train young people...
...high, say critics, to encourage employers to train workers; the minimum should be reduced during training periods, perhaps subsidized by Government work "scholarships" to young people. They would receive grants from the Government, then turn the money over to employers who would use it to finance on-the-job training...
...some of these proposals immediately. But as a courtesy he is submitting them to Congress, where reaction seems favorable. There is some outside criticism. Murray Weidenbaum, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists, thinks that the President should have provided incentives to businessmen for on-the-job training of youths. More basically, he complains that Carter "has failed to come to grips with the fundamental factor behind teen-age unemployment-the minimum wage law." The AFL-CIO is now campaigning to have the $2.30-an-hour pay floor raised to $3.00. Such a step could well price even...
...Coppola turned to the more amenable Philippine army, which provided helicopter pilots. The only trouble was that, although the Philippine pilots knew how to take off and land, they were baffled by the intricate maneuvers Coppola demanded. He handled that problem by hiring former U.S. pilots to give on-the-job training...
...judgment, temper, coolness under pressure could, of course, only be speculated about. But after the debate, many people now involved in formulating the Ford foreign policy concluded that almost anything they do not like about Carter's views could probably be set right by a little on-the-job experience...