Sanders, Conyers, Holmes Norton Announce Youth Jobs Bill
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Sanders, Conyers, Holmes Norton Announce Youth Jobs Bill
Wednesday, July 19, 2017
WASHINGTON, July 19 – At a time when over 5.3 million young people in America do not have jobs, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) and Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) announced Wednesday at the Sasha Bruce Youthwork center in Washington, D.C. that they will introduce legislation to help young people find work.
Sanders, Conyers and Holmes Norton spoke with Deborah Shore, Sasha Bruce Youthwork executive director; Kisha Bird, director of youth policy and project director for the Campaign for Youth; and young people at the center about solutions to the crisis of youth unemployment.
The real unemployment rate for recent high school graduates between the ages of 17 to 20 is over 28 percent for whites, nearly 30 percent for Hispanics and more than 42 percent for African Americans.
"It is no great secret that without work, without education, people lose hope – and when people lose hope bad things happen. The time is long overdue for us to start investing in our young people, to help them get the jobs they need, to help them get the education they need and to help them get the job training they need so that they can be part of the middle class," Sanders said.
"It is time for our country to honor our duty to those young people who are struggling to find work. The Greatest Generation had the New Deal. The Baby Boomers had the Great Society. The Millennials have, so far, had nothing but the Great Recession,” said Rep. Conyers. “Tackling youth unemployment isn't just good ethics. It's good economics. Putting our youth to work will not only avoid anxiety, poverty, and broken dreams for young people, but will also provide needed tax revenue and reduce the need for social services."
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