For years, you have been sponsoring sports leagues, afterschool programs, summer jobs and more.
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Throughout his teens, summer jobs took him from warehouses to factory lines at Polar's different divisions.
One of his first summer jobs, at 12, was packing books for the company he now must save.
The tactic might seem counter to the conventional notions of summer jobs, an opportunity once reserved for a community's local unemployed hands.
And while teens often have summer jobs, they're more likely to focus their spending more on social activities than on pricey technology.
One, David Luan, spent two years at Yale (on full scholarship) and had summer jobs at a military contractor where he worked on building robots.
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Summer enrichment activities like camp and travel, now so common for children whose parents have means, might be usefully alternated with summer jobs, with real responsibilities.
It will provide states with support for summer jobs programs for low-income youth, including the 15.6 percent of women ages 16 to 24 who are unemployed.
Young blacks in town were especially angry that most of the summer jobs in the restaurants and stores along the boardwalk were going to white kids.
We can help teenagers, who have the highest unemployment rate, find summer jobs, so they can know the pride of work and have confidence in their futures.
Identify potential future hires when they are still in college and offer them internships and summer jobs to introduce them to the organizational culture and its demands.
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This bill will help hundreds of thousands of disadvantaged young people find summer jobs next year -- jobs that will help set the direction for their entire lives.
And the bill also addresses summer jobs for disadvantaged youth.
The Interior Department, which is already one of the largest federal employers of young people, will create more opportunities, like summer jobs, for young people from military families.
In high school, Alan watched his friends come of age -- driving around town with their new licenses, earning some extra cash from their summer jobs at the mall.
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Perhaps more significantly, 77% are expected to take part-time or summer jobs while at high school, and 81% to contribute to the cost of college education by working part-time.
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To be honest, I was feeling pretty negative myself until I heard that my 18-year-old niece and nephew and my 21-year-old sister have got summer jobs related to the Olympics.
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They picked Columbia for its finance curriculum, its international diversity, its proximity to the headquarters of big corporations where they were hoping to get summer jobs and its proximity to Wall Street.
The future of our country depends so much on the skills and experience we give our youth, so in the toughest of times we need to continued to make summer jobs a priority.
With the ending of school, some teenagers may have lost their summer jobs and it will be important to help them find alternatives like assisting recovery efforts, cleaning debris, babysitting, or organizing collection drives.
Growing up outside of Los Angeles, my first summer jobs introduced me to role models that helped me become the first member of my family to go to college, and put me on a lifelong career path.
But today the White House announced Summer Jobs Plus, which is a new call to action for businesses, nonprofits and government to work together to provide pathways to employment for low-income and disconnected youth in the summer of 2012.
This summer, for example, we had students working summer jobs and internships in companies all over the world, in workplaces at Google, Microsoft, Cisco and Apple, at manufacturers in Australia, China and Japan, financial service firms on Wall Street and tech firms in Israel.
The adjusted total in June is always a lot lower than the unadjusted figure, to smooth out all those people taking summer jobs, but this year the the statisticians have adjusted away 1, 084, 000 jobs in the private sector, compared with 'only' 920, 000 in June 2010.
Earlier this week I had a chance to sit down with the Mayor and employers like BRE Properties, Starbucks, and Jawbone who understand that summer jobs offer young people a chance they desperately need, while at the same time helping businesses develop a stronger pipeline to the local workforce.
Construction is likely to start near Haymarket station this summer, creating 250 jobs.
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Top assistants who could be under consideration for jobs this summer include Golden State's Mike Malone and San Antonio's Mike Budenholzer.
"An awful lot of innocent people are having their livelihoods severely impacted, " said Lee Hunt, president of the International Association of Drilling Contractors, who has estimated the moratorium could lead to the loss of as many as 40, 000 U.S. jobs by summer's end.
And finally, this jobs bill will maintain crucial investments in our roads and our bridges as we head into the spring and summer months, when construction jobs are picking up.
Those jobs were eliminated this summer but because the teachers had seniority, they were offered their classroom jobs back.
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