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Barron’s ran an article of mine on summer jobs boondoggles as a guest editorial in the issue hitting teh stands today. Here’s an outtake from the article<\/a> (a subscription is required to see the full version on the online site).<\/p>\n

Playing At Work Isn’t Productive <\/strong> Barron’s July 20, 2009
\nby James Bovard<\/p>\n

LONG BEFORE THE AGE OF OBAMA, FEDERAL SPENDING became the panacea for social problems. Not content with new spending for new ideas, from high-speed passenger-rail services to bankruptcy bailouts, the Obama administration has revived spending for bad old ideas. Nothing better illustrates this folly than federally funded summer-job programs.<\/p>\n

Congress torpedoed such programs a decade ago, but President Barack Obama’s team revived them in the stimulus package passed in February. The federal government is providing $1.2 billion to hire 125,000 teens and young adults this summer…..<\/p>\n

In Philadelphia, teens are getting paid to engage in high-tech scavenger hunts. <\/p>\n

In Cincinnati, small Kentucky towns, and elsewhere, youth are enjoying painting large pictures on building walls. <\/p>\n

In Memphis, teens are being paid to \u201cjob shadow\u201d government workers. <\/p>\n

In Washington, DC, the 800 members of the Green Summer Job Corps, which carry out projects such as \u201cmaintenance of schoolyard butterfly habitats.\u201d <\/p>\n

Such jobs teach kids all the wrong lessons – as far as \u201cwork\u201d goes….<\/p>\n

….American teenagers should not be sacrificed on an altar of political photo opportunities. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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