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this, President Carter has proposed a $1.5 billion program to provide about 200,000 jobs for young people. The House passed a bill embodying Carter’s proposals in May, and similar legislation is pending in the Senate.
But Mr. Carter and Congress are missing a much greater opportunity. The problem is that businessmen simply can’t pay minimum wages which the federal government requires be paid equally to unskilled youngsters and to trained adults.
Labor unions, more powerful than the President and Congress in these matters, won’t have it. There is nothing for labor unions in the per centage of dues they could collect from kids.
It is bitter medicine to see these tired old moguls of big labor having such a stranglehold on the Congress and Presidency that they cannot legislate honest opportunity for kids, except by government paid jobs.
So the minimum- wage law leaves employers’ hands tied, effectively preventing them from giving those jobs to youngsters which would enable them to learn skills, to get their foot in the door and progress to higher pay.
We can only do what we can then in this community with the limited jobs small businessmen can afford to give and pay.
Toward that, this newspaper will over the next month offer low cost ($1) classified ads to any youngster seeking a summer job.
We hope the businessmen and farmers here will give them a leg up.
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