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In the season when millions of college basketball fans are
seized by tournament fever, 227 House members seem to be suffering from their
own form of March Madness.
The second largest cut the House approved today came from
summer jobs for poor kids. The action eliminates 615,000 jobs for them this
summer -- and 615,000 more next summer. For most of these kids, summer jobs
would have offered their first paychecks -- their first taste of the working
world. Now, more than one million disadvantaged young men and women who want to
work will have to find other ways to spend their summers.
The message to American youth is both simple and chilling:
work doesn't matter.
Unless these House members have plenty of room for summer
interns, let's hope the Senate shows greater wisdom.
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