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Obama's new jobs plan includes 110,000 unpaid positions

by: Erik Wasson
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Obama's new jobs plan includes 110,000 unpaid positions
President Obama's latest jobs plan is for private businesses to provide 110,000 unpaid positions for summer workers. Photo Credit:AP
President Obama on Thursday will unveil a summer-jobs initiative that the White House says is already on track to create 180,000 “work opportunities” in the private sector in 2012.

That is the number of opportunities, which includes mentoring and unpaid internships, that companies have told the administration they are willing to create. Some 70,000 jobs are paid, the White House says.

The initiative was hatched after Congress failed to approve a $1.5 billion summer-jobs fund that President Obama had been seeking as part of the American Jobs Act.

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