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Remarks of the President at Signing of H.J. Res. 492, the Urgent Supplements for Summer Youth Employment and Recreation [Ford Speech or Statement]
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Digitized from Box 12 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
JUNE 16, 1975
OFFICE OF THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY
THE WHITE HOUSE
REMARKS OF THE PRESIDENT
UPON SIGNING
H. J. RES. 492
THE URGENT SUPPLEMENTS FOR SUMMER
YOUTH EMPLOYMENT AND RECREATION
THE CABINET ROOM
3:37 P.M. EDT
Before signing the summer youth employment
recreation and transportation supplemental appropriations
bill, I do want to thank the Members of Congress, both
the House and the Senate, both Democratic as well as
Republican, for the quick action in getting this supple-
mental appropriation bill through.
It amounts to about $473 million. It will
provide approximately 840,000 job opportunities for
young people in the summer of 1975.
We do have a very high unemployment rate,
particularly among the youth, and the youth not only need
the jobs to keep active, but they also need the
employment and the compensation in order to return to
school, if they are in college, or otherwise in the
educational process.
I think this legislation administered by the
Department of Labor, primarily under Secretary Dunlop
and by the Community Services Administration, will do a
fine job. The funding that comes from this appropriation
bill will make a good many jobs available for the youth
of America in the summer of 1975.
So, I thank the Congress. I am grateful for
the good job I know will be done by the Department of
Labor and the Community Services Administrations,
So, it is with great pleasure that I sign
this supplemental appropriation bill.
Thank you very much.
END (AT 3:39 P.M. EDT)