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<blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 922701" data-attributes="member: 1246">110,000 unpaid jobs....what&#039;s the point????Obama’s Executive Order Youth Jobs Plan Includes 110,000 Unpaid Positions, Will Cost U.S. Taxpayers $1.5 Billion…No wonder he had to circumvent Congress to enact this disaster.(The Hill) — President Obama on Thursday will unveil a summer-jobs initiative that the White House says is already on track to create 180,000 “work opportunities” in the private sector in 2012.

That is the number of opportunities, which includes mentoring and unpaid internships, that companies have told the administration they are willing to create. Some 70,000 jobs are paid, the White House says.

The initiative was hatched after Congress failed to approve a $1.5 billion summer-jobs fund that President Obama had been seeking as part of the American Jobs Act.

“Today’s announcement is the latest in a series of executive actions the Obama administration is taking to strengthen the economy and move the country forward because we can’t wait for Congress to act,” a White House statement reads.

Labor Secretary Hilda Solis said the “opportunities” are all new and were not jobs that would have existed anyway.
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[QUOTE="moreluck, post: 922701, member: 1246"] 110,000 unpaid jobs....what's the point???? Obama’s Executive Order Youth Jobs Plan Includes 110,000 Unpaid Positions, Will Cost U.S. Taxpayers $1.5 Billion… No wonder he had to circumvent Congress to enact this disaster. [INDENT](The Hill) — President Obama on Thursday will unveil a summer-jobs initiative that the White House says is already on track to create 180,000 “work opportunities” in the private sector in 2012. That is the number of opportunities, which includes mentoring and unpaid internships, that companies have told the administration they are willing to create. [B]Some 70,000 jobs are paid,[/B] the White House says. The initiative was hatched after Congress failed to approve a $1.5 billion summer-jobs fund that President Obama had been seeking as part of the American Jobs Act. “Today’s announcement is the latest in a series of executive actions the Obama administration is taking to strengthen the economy and move the country forward because we can’t wait for Congress to act,” a White House statement reads. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis said the “opportunities” are all new and were not jobs that would have existed anyway. [/INDENT] [/QUOTE]

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