Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...employer can hire a young person for as little as $262 for the entire summer if he applies the tax credit," declared Albert Angrisani, Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training in the U.S. Department of Labor. In fact, at the minimum wage a business is in effect paying a youngster at the old-fashioned rate of 50? an hour...
...youngster began tagging along at any GOP functions he could get into. In 1976, he supervised the township youth campaign for a U.S. Congressional candidate. Elliott's man lost but took Bremen by a wider margin than he received in his home township. "The first big break," the senior recalls with mock seriousness...
...fashion: by voluntarily getting fingerprinted. The phenomenon has swept communities throughout the nation; it has sometimes been spurred by a local tragedy, sometimes by the many articles about missing children or the recent film Without a Trace, based loosely on the disappearance in 1979 of a New York City youngster, Etan Patz. The purpose of the fingerprinting is to aid law enforcement agencies in the event that one's child becomes one of the 50,000 who are abducted by strangers each year...
...parents usually keep the only records. Some states, including Texas and Vermont, for bid law enforcement agencies to file the prints of juveniles. But a number of communities are considering allowing police or schools to have copies of the documents; critics attack this practice as a violation of a youngster's constitutional rights to privacy and against selfincrimination...
...efforts to ease the child's natural problems in the witness chair, the experience can still be traumatic (as it often is for adults). In abuse cases, for example, youngsters must relive acutely painful incidents, and they frequently feel that they are the ones on trial. Those considerations recently cost Philadelphia Prosecutor William Heiman his sexual abuse case against the father of a four-year-old girl. She was the sole witness, and Heiman could not bring in her mother to relate what the youngster had told her because that would be inadmissible hearsay. The girl was not forced...