The Right Way to Put Kids to Work – NY Times

Sam Redman, of the Living New Deal team, takes on Newt Gingrich’s proposal to fire school janitors and replace them with school kids.  Redman recalls the New Deal’s National Youth Administration, a constructive program that helped millions of kids in the 1930s and that could be replicated today – but not if Gingrich becomes president!

 

Richard A Walker is the director of the Living New Deal.

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