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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: chartseer who wrote (104089)	5/3/2011 8:56:02 AM
From: lorne	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224706

Teen Joblessness May Hit Record in Summer 2011 Published: Monday, 2 May 2011 By: Reuters cnbc.com A record-low one in four U.S. teenagers will land a summer job in the coming months as a result of a still-poor job market and lost federal funding, according to a report issued on Monday. As a consequence, urban studies experts said cities like Chicago—where summer unemployment among African-Americans aged 16 to 19 years approaches 90 percent—could experience a rise in street violence. "Both national and local leadership continue to ignore the plight of youth who are most at risk for potential violence as a result of being left on the streets in the summer months when crime is at its most explosive," Chicago Urban League President Andrea Zopp said in a statement. The summer employment rate among U.S. teen-agers this year was projected at between 25 percent and 27 percent, based on an analysis of four decades of employment trends by Andrew Sum of the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University in Boston. That would be a post-World War Two low, while as recently as 2006 the teen summer employment rate was 37 percent. U.S. economic growth has been sluggish since the recession ended in June 2009, with job growth lagging the recovery and unemployment still at a lofty 8.8 percent. The long-term impact of higher summer joblessness among young people is a less-experienced work force and increased government spending due to lower lifetime earnings, reduced tax revenues and higher prison costs, experts said. In Chicago alone, nearly 700 children were hit by gunfire last year, with 66 deaths, though the city's overall murder rate declined, said Jack Wuest, executive director of the Alternative Schools Network which commissioned the report. "We cannot continue to ignore the correlation between youth violence and teen employment," Wuest said. "We know if our teens are in school or at a job they are not on the streets." Federal stimulus dollars directed to cities and applied to summer jobs programs have run out and the funding was not renewed by Congress, meaning 18,000 more Illinois teen-agers will be jobless this summer, according to the report.

To: chartseer who wrote (104089)	5/3/2011 9:17:37 AM
From: lorne	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224706

Iran TV: Israeli warplanes massing at U.S. airbase in Iraq to strike Iran Israel says it had no knowledge of such a strike plan and both the Pentagon and Iraq's air force commander deny the Iranian report. By Reuters Published 02.05.11 haaretz.com Iranian state television ran a report on Monday saying Israeli military aircraft were massing at a U.S. air base in Iraq for a strike on Iran. The report appeared on the website of Press TV. Israel said it had no knowledge of such a strike plan and both the Pentagon and Iraq's air force commander denied the Iranian report. The reactor building of the Bushehr nuclear power plant is seen, just outside the southern city of Bushehr, Iran. Press TV quoted what it said was source close to the movement of Moqtada al-Sadr, an Iraqi Shi'ite cleric who opposes the U.S. presence in Iraq and has close ties to Iran's leaders. Washington's ally Israel accuses Tehran of using its declared civilian nuclear reactor program to conceal a plan to develop atomic bombs that would threaten the Jewish state. Israeli leaders have not ruled out military action against Iran. However, there has been no recent indication of increased tensions and no other information on Monday to corroborate the Iranian television report. An Israeli army spokeswoman said she had no knowledge of any such report and said the military did not comment on operational matters. Iraqi air force commander Staff Lieutenant General Anwar Ahmed rejected the report as "groundless". "The al-Asad base (mentioned by Press TV) exists on Iraqi territory. We can never accept launching any military attack against any of the neighboring countries, whether Iran or any other country, from Iraqi lands," he told Reuters. The United States and its Western allies suspect Iran is using its nuclear energy program as a cover to build bombs. Iran denies the allegation, insisting it needs nuclear technology to generate more electricity. Iran has repeatedly warned that it would strike Israeli nuclear targets if Israel attacked its nuclear activities. Iran does not recognize Israel, which it calls the "Zionist regime." Israel, believed to be the only nuclear-armed country in the Middle East, bombed Iraq's only nuclear reactor to rubble in 1981 when Saddam Hussein was in power in Baghdad.