The Goderich Signal-Star, 1983-11-02, Page 40PAGE 4A -(ODER CH SWCNA STAR, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1982
Major program
announced
to help youth
t___J F.
PARK
BY JACK RIDDELL, MPP
Opposition Leader David' Peterson and
the members of the Liberal Caucus this
week announced a major program to pro-
vide up to one year's work experience at the
basic minimum wage to long-term
unemployed youth in Ontario.
Calling lingering youth unemployment
one of the most serious problems confron-
ting Ontario, Mr. Peterson said there is an
urgent need to provide work for the
thousands of jobless 18 to 24 year olds.
Educational upgrading and career/employ-
ment counselling is part of the Liberal pro-
gram.
"Being unemployed is a disheartening
and dispiriting existence for anyone. Being
young and unemployed is especially
debilitating — out on the streets, looking for
work, stymied at every turn," Mr. Peterson
said.
"In September 1983, 159,000 young people
were unemployed, representing almost one
in six youth in the labour force. The in-
cidence of long-term unemployment among
youth is particularly alarming — in 1982, ap-
proximately 28,000 18 to 24 year olds m On-
tario were unemployed for a period of twen-
ty weeks or more. A national survey
published in 1980 found that 21 percent of
unemployed youth had been without jobs for
over ten months. The prospects for youth
are not promising. Forecasts predict that
current levels of youth unemployment will
continue for more than another year.
"Statistics and charts well document the
continuing plight of Ontario's unemployed
youth. However, statistics cannot measure
the despair of those who cannot get a job
because they have no job experience. Nor
can statistics measure the desperation of
those who do not know how or when to begin
to look for work, or unfortunately, the
frustration of those who have difficulty even
filling out a job application form. This is a
generation losing confidence in themselves,
and lacking hope for the future.
"The youth of Ontario need jobs. They
need the experience and the self-confidence
that come from working. They also need to
invest in themselves, through increased -
educational effort and life skills develop-
ment.
"The program we are announcing would
give them that opportunity. This program
offers youth an experience which no other
provincial or federal program currently
provides.
"Our youth program would give a
guaranteed opportunity for a work ex-
perience of up to one year to every youth, 18
to 24 years of age, who has been unemployed
for 20 weeks or more.
"However, this is not just a job creation
program. Participants would be required to
enrol in education courses, at levels com-
mensurate with their needs. In addition,
participants would be required to take part
in employment counselling services to
familiarize them with job search techniques
and proper job performance habits. Such
counselling would also help them seek fur-
ther employment opportunities, or as the
case may be ,further educational or skills
training possibilities.
"The best estimates of the costs of such a
program are $90 to $110 million, servicing
approximately 14,000 youth each year. It is
not possible, in advance, to accurately put a
dollar figure to the benefits of such a pro-
gram. However, experience with these
types of programs uniformly show that
benefits outweight the direct cost, on the
basis of the goods and services produced,
the unemployment insurance and welfare
payments saved, increased motivation
among youth to seek skills upgrading ( the
eventual result being a better skilled and
more employable work force), reduced
crime rates, reduced alcohol and drug
abuse, increased tax revenue from a work-
ing, previously unemployed sector. Actual
estimates of benefits per dollar generated
from other programs range from $1.65 for
the California Conservation Corps, between
$1.05 and $3.13 for the United States Job Cor-
ps, and up to $6.40 to $7.80 for the Canada
Manpower Training Program ( not youth
specific) in 1970-73.
"In sum, our program would offer real
benefits to youth and to the province as a
whole. We can guarantee for youth a
positive employment and educational op-
portunity and for the Province, productive
social gains.
"Ontario's most important natural
resource is our youth. We're prepared to
give them the right chance."
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