1.0Employment Policies Institutehttps://epionline.orgepionlinehttps://epionline.org/author/epionline/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content"><a href="https://epionline.org/release/o240/">$600 Million in New Spending Not the Way to Create Teen Jobs</a></blockquote> <script type='text/javascript'> <!--//--><![CDATA[//><!-- /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(c,d){"use strict";var e=!1,n=!1;if(d.querySelector)if(c.addEventListener)e=!0;if(c.wp=c.wp||{},!c.wp.receiveEmbedMessage)if(c.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if(t)if(t.secret||t.message||t.value)if(!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var r,a,i,s=d.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),n=d.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=0;o<n.length;o++)n[o].style.display="none";for(o=0;o<s.length;o++)if(r=s[o],e.source===r.contentWindow){if(r.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message){if(1e3<(i=parseInt(t.value,10)))i=1e3;else if(~~i<200)i=200;r.height=i}if("link"===t.message)if(a=d.createElement("a"),i=d.createElement("a"),a.href=r.getAttribute("src"),i.href=t.value,i.host===a.host)if(d.activeElement===r)c.top.location.href=t.value}}},e)c.addEventListener("message",c.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),d.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",t,!1),c.addEventListener("load",t,!1);function t(){if(!n){n=!0;for(var e,t,r=-1!==navigator.appVersion.indexOf("MSIE 10"),a=!!navigator.userAgent.match(/Trident.*rv:11\./),i=d.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),s=0;s<i.length;s++){if(!(e=i[s]).getAttribute("data-secret"))t=Math.random().toString(36).substr(2,10),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t);if(r||a)(t=e.cloneNode(!0)).removeAttribute("security"),e.parentNode.replaceChild(t,e)}}}}(window,document); //--><!]]> </script><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://epionline.org/release/o240/embed/" width="600" height="338" title="“$600 Million in New Spending Not the Way to Create Teen Jobs” — Employment Policies Institute" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe>WASHINGTON – Wednesday night, the House of Representatives passed the Disaster Relief and Summer Jobs Act of 2010 (H.R. 4899). The bill will send $600 million to states to create summer employment opportunities for teens. Michael Saltsman, research fellow at the Employment Policies Institute, made the following statement regarding the legislation: To create jobs for our country’s 1.4 million out-of-work teens, Congress should reconsider laws that make it difficult for less-skilled applicants to find work in the first place. Speaker Pelosi claims that $600 million in new government spending will support 300,000 summer jobs for out-of-work teens. Yet, current research from Ball State University attributed the loss of 310,000 teenage part-time jobs to the Pelosi-supported minimum wage increase – a 40 percent increase between July 2007 and July 2009. Economic research from as far back as the 1940s shows that mandated wage hikes are job-killers, especially for teens getting started in the workforce. Even the editorial board of The Washington Post – which has supported past wage increases – has recently suggested Congress could put teens back to work by rolling back the $7.25 federal minimum wage. It doesn’t cost $600 million to create jobs for teens. It only requires Congress to admit that the minimum wage hike shut the door on opportunities for many of America’s youngest workers.