PRESS CONFERENCE NO. 3 OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

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• Publication Date: March 9, 1977
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PI2ESIDE.lIT OF THE ViIITED STATES
10:00 A.I. E5T
PIARCI? 9, 1977
j^7EDTdESDAY
In oom 450
Old Executive Office Building
69as'nington, ll.C.
T?-IE PFd;SID~i~ITo Good morning. I have too brief
staten~.ents to make and then I e~ill be glad to ans~~er questions .
I have sent to Congress this morning a youth
employment package which c~~il1 consist of about $1-1/2 billion,
part of the economic stimulus package.
I have been particularly concerned in my own cam-
paign trips around the country the last t~~ao years with the
extraordinarily high unemployment rate among young people.
=ore than half of the total unemployed are less than 24 years
old. Among those, say, from 16 to l9 years old, we have over
18 percent unemployment, and some of the minority groups in
urban areas more than 40 percent.
So we are going to try a heavy concentration of
effort in several of the major departments of government
to cut doe~n unemployment among our young people. We have,
for instance, a youth conservation corps similar to what tae
had during the depression years l:nocm as a Civilian Conser-
vation Corps, the CCC. This t~~ill be administered by the
Department of Agriculture and Interior in the open spaces of
our country.
6Te will have a Youth Community Conservation Corps
ir. t'rle urban areas with a heavy emphasis on training for
young people leading to employment. Including existing
programs, this will be about a million jobs on a permanent
basis, plus another million joaa during .the st e er.
I hope the Congress will act quickly on this
proposal. I migiZt say many i~.erwers of the Congress have
been equally concerned and have done a great deal of work on this
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