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Show Hatch introduces Unemployment Alternative the social bonus JOB system. "I am as deeply concerned as anyone in the Senate with the continued con-tinued stubbornness of our unemployment unem-ployment levels especially among disadvantaged youth. Something innovative and ingenious must be developed to give energetic, capable, young adults and youths meaningful, productive work to do. If we don't do this we will create an antagonistic and hopeless generation that will force the changes we were unable to make legislatively," Hatch concluded. Sen. Orrin G. Hatch has introduced a private sector alternative to the so-called so-called Humphrey-Hawkins full employment em-ployment bill. The measure, entitled Job Opportunity Bonus Act (JOB) or JOB bill is dosigned to reduce structural unemployment both rural and urban. It will do this through incentives for private and independent in-dependent sector sponsors to establish additional employment opportunities for eligible citizens. "The federal government," according ac-cording to Sen. Hatch, "will offer bonus 'cash incentives to private and independent sector businessmen and community leaders, making it worth their while to institute and operate job training programs." In his economic analysis of the Humphrey-Hawkins bill, Sen. Hatch has determined, "It is not the artificially-stimulated, non-producing public sector, as outlined in Humphrey-Hawkins, that is responsible for our gross national product; it is the private sector." The JOB bill will unleash the forces of this private sector through a systematic, sustained incentives' ' program and develop a full employment em-ployment program in concert with the economy," the Utahn said. The amount of each social bonus payment shall not be less than $2,500 nor more than $4,000 each year of employment of any eligible applicant, with eligibility to be determined by the Secretary of Labor. In return for the social bonus payments, the employer em-ployer will be required to train the workers in meaningful work, at the minimum wage or more, for not less than one year nor more than three. Good job skills, proper work habits, and employment etiquette are additional ad-ditional skills expected to come from |