Back in February, President Obama kicked off his administration’s Summer Opportunity Project with a LinkedIn post recalling his first job scooping rock-hard ice cream, which he remembered as being “brutal on the wrists.”
The president is hoping his Summer Opportunity Project proposals, which will cost more than $20 billion, will match seasonal job opportunities with young people, in particular black and Hispanic teenage boys, whom the White House says lag behind their peers in summer employment.
Another hope is that employment will cut down on crime. “Too often, those idle summer months are when [young people] make mistakes that might get them in trouble with the law and set them down the wrong path,” wrote the president.
Top aide Valerie Jarrett recently reminded a job seeker on Twitter that yes, summer jobs are one of the president’s many, many No. 1 priorities.
#SummerJobs is a top @POTUS priority. This year, we launched the #SummerOpportunityProject: https://t.co/uHQnamj5Cz. https://t.co/Z4bMUBZmKf
— Valerie Jarrett (@vj44) May 20, 2016
Of course, the administration is counting on the private sector to provide those entry-level job opportunities while it also rolls out new rules on overtime pay and pushes for a $15 an hour minimum wage so that these teenage boys can support a family of four with dignity.
https://twitter.com/sullafelix/status/733720391017844736
@WhiteHouse @POTUS @genprogress pull back the epa and your red tape and let "we the people" make our own adult choices. We create jobs
— Brandon Benson (@BBenson07) May 21, 2016
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@WhiteHouse @POTUS @genprogress Stop increasing regulations and minimum wage if you want more youth jobs.
— Chad Hagan (@BluesOnTheBat10) May 20, 2016
@WhiteHouse @POTUS @genprogress set the #minimumwage to $0.00 and poof MASSIVE employment boom!
— ConspiracyArchitect (@cganiere) May 20, 2016
@WhiteHouse @POTUS put them to work cleaning trash from the sides of the roads. let's see how many takers there are.
— Old School MP (@DIPGparent) May 21, 2016
The best chance of getting a job would be to renounce your citizenship and come back as an illegal, much more opportunities.
— Chieftain Ole the Red (@mjolnir59) May 20, 2016
https://twitter.com/usefulstooges/status/733709849012244480
Will the president’s Summer Opportunity Project be as massive a success as his jobs council, which shut down in January 2013 after the president stopped attending due to having “a lot on his plate”?
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