Political Quotes

“in order to get the private sector into this summer youth jobs program, it seems to us to be very, very important that there be an encouragement for them to do so. After all, the private sector can and does employ young people at summer jobs without any intervention from the Federal Government. When it begins to deal with the Federal program, many private-sector employers, rightly or wrongly--rightly, in the view of this Senator--feel they are simply involved in another bureaucratic exercise. What we would like to have them do, however, is to provide more employment to more young people. So in addition to expanding the proposal from the public and nonprofit sectors to the profitmaking private sector, the gist of this amendment is to allow each service delivery area's officials to make a determination as to whether or not to provide a subsidy out of the amount of money appropriated to it, out of its share of the overall pot, to subsidize private-sector employment. We put a cap of 40 percent on that subsidy. But even if every dollar in a particular service delivery area were to be devoted to private-sector, subsidized employment, we would have a situation in which only 40 percent of the salaries would be paid by the service delivery area and 60 percent by the private sector itself. In other words, we could probably supply 2 to 2rac{1}{2} times more summer employment for youth than the summer youth program does at the present time.”