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FRESHMAN AND SOPHOMORES looking forward to minimum-wage summer jobs may have less to look forward to if a Reagan Administration proposal to cut youth wages wins Congressional approval. The "youth opportunity wage act of 1985" would allow employers to pay persons under age 20 $2.50 an hour or 75 percent of the adult minimum wage, whichever is less, from May to September each year. Supporters of the legislation, introduced by Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Rep. Trent Lott (R-Miss.), say the bill will increase the number of jobs open to young people. Education Week...
...otherwise have had. Suddenly, politics came dancing with a loony phosphorescence. There was a certain giddy proximity of death in the time--rock stars like Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix went tumbling down from drug overdoses, as if to dramatize the war's theme of meaninglessly, profligately blasted youth...
Ozment places most of the blame for declining quality on "careerist, grade-grubbing and narrows" students. "A critique has to be made of the present culture of youth," he says...
...Duluthians is not blind or limited. They are participants as well as supporters. Friends of mine are involved in coaching, world class curling, bowling, and amatuer softball. This is not to mention the general interest in anything outdoors: fishing, hunting, canoeing, or camping. These people teach school, counsel troubled youth, and run local businesses. A life exists for them apart from Bulldog hockey, and yet they were at the game and kidding me as I rooted for Harvard. Their pride in Bulldog hockey could be termed excessive, but it is accepted as evidence of people still interested in and proud...
CMAC Director David Kronberg emphasizes the center's work with children and youth as the key to improving cultural intolerance. "It'll be over the longterm-we'll be here for the next century and we could be affecting kids of every generation...