§3115 — Title 15 Commerce and Trade | U.S. Code

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The President must improve and expand programs that help young people get jobs and recommend new laws if needed. Congress says many young people are unemployed even when the economy is okay. They make up a large share of the jobless and this adds to crime, alcoholism, drug abuse, and other social problems. Many youths also have special job needs that, if not fixed, will make unemployment worse later. Programs should link with other job and training efforts, make it easier to move from school to work, help disadvantaged youth get steady, self-sustaining jobs, mix training with real work, and create incentives for businesses to hire young people who have trouble finding full-time work.

Title 15, §3115

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(a)The Congress finds and declares—

(1)That 11 So in original. Probably should not be capitalized. serious unemployment and economic disadvantage of a unique nature exist among youths even under generally favorable economic conditions;

(2)that this group constitutes a substantial portion of the Nation’s unemployment, and that this significantly contributes to crime, alcoholism and drug abuse, and other social and economic problems; and

(3)that many youths have special employment needs and problems which, if not promptly addressed, will substantially contribute to more severe unemployment problems in the long run.

(b)To the extent deemed necessary in fulfillment of the purposes of this chapter, the President shall improve and expand existing youth employment programs, recommending legislation where required. In formulating any such program, the President shall—

(1)include provisions designed to fully coordinate youth employment activities with other employment and training programs;

(2)develop a smoother transition from school to work;

(3)prepare disadvantaged and other youths with employability handicaps for regular self-sustaining employment;

(4)develop realistic methods for combining training with work; and

(5)develop provisions designed to attract structurally unemployed youth into productive full-time employment through incentives to private and independent sector businesses; 22 So in original. The semicolon probably should be a period.

§3115 Youth employment policies and programs

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