Thursday, June 14, 2007

Pittsburgh - Going Through the Motions - News - News - Pittsburgh City Paper

Tonya says hire them all.
Pittsburgh - Going Through the Motions - News - News - Pittsburgh City Paper 'If a young person put in an application, then hire them,' Payne said at city council's June 5 meeting. 'Hire them all. We need to make it a priority to find work for every one of those kids.'

The program's cost is $125,000. The ballpark figure to hire 726 young people? About $1.2 million for eight weeks of work.
That solution, give them all a job pulling weeds, is not ideal, to say the least.

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