Because the federal minimum wage of today is too little.
The program sounds good depending on the wage scale.
Today, when I went to my doctor in a large medical facility, student volunteers were everywhere. It was great to see them, but they looked high school or college age. At that age I had jobs. I was not volunteering. And those kids should not have been volunteering either.
How many students will get jobs that pay?
I'm a bit skeptical on that but open to persuasion if the progam works well.
This I really like:
The former first lady is a vocal proponent of early childhood education, something embodied by an initiative through her family’s foundation called “Too Small to Fail.”
On Tuesday, Clinton announced partnerships with organizations including Scholastic and the American Academy of Pediatrics and described seeing children’s “faces light up” when adults engage with them, something she said she saw when reading with her daughter, Chelsea, and something she expects to see with her new grandchild, who is expected this fall.
But, touching on the issue of economic inequality, Clinton said that children in poorer families often don’t enjoy as many of those learning experiences, in part because of“pressures on the adults in their families who have to work harder than ever just to stay afloat. Those economic pressures than translate into less” quality time, she said.
“By four years of age children in lower income families tend to have heard more than 30 million fewer words than children in more affluent families,” Clinton said. She argued that the resulting “word gap” leads to “an achievement gap that can have lifelong consequences. Every child deserves a fair chance in school.”
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/clinton-global-initiative-youth-jobs-108252.html
Hillary is responding to the pressure, but it is going to take a lot of ongoing pressure to get her to move away from her "partnerships," with (read subservience to) the greedy. self-centered corporations and Wall Street and take the side of the rest of us. She has a long way to go.
Early childhood education is one of the keys to helping American families and children. We also need a massive program of parenting education -- how to discipline children without corporal punishment, how to be a good parent, how to foster your child's success.
Here is a link to just one of a number of good books on this topic.
http://www.rakuten.com/prod/how-to-talk-so-kids-will-listen-listen-so-kids-will-talk/223092604.html?listingId=335006026&scid=pla_google_SynergyDataInc&adid=17260&gclid=CNPjrtWRlL8CFQWTfgod-b8A_A
Every parent or grandparent should read it. I recommend it for Hillary Clinton. She probably already knows what is in it. But as a grandmother myself, it is always useful to re-read the basics on how to best help your grandchild or child to become a fulfilled and contributing adult.
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