The Right Way to Put Kids to Work

As high school students, it is very difficult to find free time in order to get a job. With school and sports and other afterschool activities, along with the homework and porjects outside of school, there are mere minutes leftover in a high schoolers day. However, there are ways in order to help teens and yound adults find jobs that can help them pay for everything that they need. In this article, by Samuel J. Redman, he proposes that the government bring back the National Youth Administration, which was a group formed during the Great Depression to put those teens and young adults that needed jobs to work. By reviving this organization, Redman feels that it is the perfect way to give young adults the opportunity to work once again.

In order to persuade his readers on his point, Redman uses first-hand reports in order to truly illustrate the need for employement in the youth of today. He interviews three different young adults, and uses their remarks in order to support their need for employment. College fees, apartments, and many other bills were their reasons stated as their needs for a job, and by using these remarks it is able to show his argument that the National Youth Administration would do well in order to put the youth back to work in the right way.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/15/opinion/the-right-way-to-put-kids-to-work.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss