Posted on 05/29/2009 9:16:59 AM PDT by Boston Blackie
Criminal offenders, teen moms, dropouts, runaways and other wayward youths will score summer jobs with federal stimulus cash as most Bay State kids desperately scramble to land coveted seasonal gigs in a tight economy.
Requirements for summer jobs:
• Lacking basic skills.
• Pregnant or parenting.
• School dropout.
• Homeless or runaway.
• Court-involved or an “offender.”
• An English as a Second Language learner or an immigrant.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bostonherald.com ...
80% of the funding will to to ACORN, the rest to the non-producer class.
The link doesn’t work for me. Can you check it out, because I’d love to send this one to my list.
OK, thanks. Ignore my earlier post.
The “Americans with No Abilities Act” is finally here. I must apologize to my daughter who will graduate with Honors from Revere HS next week. WHERE DID I GO RIGHT!?
More of the same....reward the lowest achievers. What happened to help for kids who were bothering to stay out of trouble....forget them!
I freaked when I read the story and messed up the link. Sorry about that!
I remember when John Silber was president of Boston University and had a program for a free college education for incarcerated murderers.
Meanwhile my son did not qualify for any grants or assistance. Go figure.
most gubermint programs cater to the lowest common denominator.
case in point.
If Kennedy thought this way, there never would have been money to get to the Moon. Instead, it’s all just going down a rat hole.
The world is turning upside down. Rewarding pregnant teens, criminal offenders, dropouts . . .
Of course, some people will be shocked when rewarding this behavior results in more of this destructive behavior.
Jeannine
Oh, wait, that's what the "free market" does, and we can't have that anymore.
I sent this one to my kids, some of whom are looking for summer jobs, and some of who have kids who are looking for summer jobs.
They’ve all encountered similar difficulties when applying for college scholarships. Not much money left after all the minorities have been satisfied.
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