Kendrick Meek: “just to the point, I have some information here. I am so glad the gentleman from Ohio segued into summer jobs. I worked…”

“just to the point, I have some information here. I am so glad the gentleman from Ohio segued into summer jobs. I worked in the summer and I worked every summer. I had to because my mom was like, you are going to go out and you are going to work. So right now, we have the Center For Labor and Market Studies at Northeastern University in Boston saying, right now we are experiencing the lowest job opportunity; summer jobs for teens this summer are expected to be at the worst since World War II, since the end of World War II. And I think it is so very, very important for us to see that and understand that. Kids that are going to be released from school soon that are going to have all day and idle minds to sit at home or even to get in trouble. They are usually productive because we provide an opportunity for those individuals to go out and get a job to hopefully help mom, dad or grandpa, whatever the case may be, are not going to have that opportunity. Not only the fact that we have a bad job growth experience right now in the United States, but the fact that companies that would usually carry out that goodwill gesture of saying, I am hiring some kids this summer, I am putting them to work, I am going to do the right thing, they cannot afford it.”