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...thus far predicted that mass unrest will be crushed, as in the 1968 Prague Spring or the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, and it is dangerous to take the side likely to lose; especially since President Obama wants to move quickly to negotiations with the regime over Iran's nuclear program...
...while youth unemployment is high, more telling to Sum are youth employment numbers, which show that less than 1 out of every 3 teens currently has a job, the lowest number since 1948. This statistic helps explain why Sum thinks the program isn't going far enough. Sure, $1.2 billion and hundreds of thousands of jobs sound huge, but it will bring teen unemployment down only a few percentage points - and only for a few months at that. If the point of a summer-jobs program is partly to train the uninitiated in the ways of the working world...
Mariah Hilgart is happy, however, just to have a job right now. Although she has spent some time working with her mother at a tanning salon, the 15-year-old in Park Falls, Wis., was able to secure her first "real job" through a workforce development program in the northwestern part of the state. At $7.25 an hour, 20 hours a week, Hilgart hopes that by working at the local chamber of commerce she can - surprise - save enough money for a car. "I like the new Pontiac G6s. They're amazing," she says. Apparently Hilgart has not heard that Pontiac...
...fundamental problem is that employment is the backbone of the U.S. resettlement program. Refugees are expected to find work when they arrive in the U.S. and to move as quickly as possible toward self-sufficiency, a system tailored to an economy with plentiful jobs. When jobs dry up, as they have now, the system collapses, Carey said...
...Busby, director for human rights in the National Security Council's Office of Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights, said on Tuesday that the Administration is aware of the problems illustrated by the aid groups' report and is poised to embark on a review of the Federal Government's resettlement program. He cautioned, though, that some of the flaws in the resettlement program are fundamental structural problems that are going to take time to fix. "We will look at whatever the needs are and try to address them as quickly as we can," he said...