Word: summer
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...that we're back in the 'Bridge, FlyBy is back for the summer! Sporadically, that is. We don't have as many people, so it's hard to keep up, ya know? We'll try to keep you intermittently entertained as you're chained to that desk, and figure we haven't hit it big enough yet to be blocked by your I-bank's servers. Also, we don't have real jobs, that pay, like, enough money to eat at Qdoba every day...soooo we have really nothing else...
...Hollister Singleton wants a car. Specifically, a Dodge Challenger, black. And while it will be several years before Singleton will be able to get behind the wheel of a vehicle - he's only 14 years old - he is hoping to start saving up with the money he makes this summer working in his first job: helping to clean and maintain classrooms at his school in Strayhorn, Miss. And what would he be doing otherwise? "Honestly, I'd probably just be hanging out, maybe at the beach," he says...
...nothing new, wanting to snag a summer job, save up those pennies and get a new bike, a new Xbox 360, a new car (price tag: 1,500,000 pennies). But for many low-income teens in the U.S., like those in Tate County, where Singleton lives, jobs have been in scarce supply since the Federal Government gutted its summer-jobs program about a decade ago. But the Obama Administration is changing all that, having directed $1.2 billion to pay for summer jobs for youths. Every state is now flush with stimulus dollars - ranging from about $3 million (in Wyoming...
...since 1992. Why the steep rise? For starters, there's this little thing called the recession. But concern about youth employment also pretty much fell off the federal radar in recent years. Back when President Lyndon Johnson launched the War on Poverty in 1965, the Federal Government started funding summer-jobs programs for low-income youth. These efforts included the Neighborhood Youth Corps, the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act and the Job Training Partnership Act. In 1999, however, federal commitment to low-income-youth employment was swallowed up by the Workforce Investment Act, which made summer jobs...
...many private companies that are going to hire teenagers," says Bill Renick of the Mississippi Partnership Workforce Area. "You just don't have businesses on every corner in small-town Mississippi. I've got applications from kids from Sarah - a town which has maybe 200 people - and summer-job opportunities just don't normally come around for them." As a result, Renick says more than 10,000 applications were submitted for what will likely turn out to be about 1,600 jobs...