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SUMMER JOBS

Summer...barbeques, ice cream, suntan oil, baseball games...and Summer Jobs '83! Summer offers the opportunity for fun in the sun and this summer Philip Morris and the New York City Partnership offers economically disadvantaged youths an opportunity to work in private-sector jobs.

The Summer Jobs Program is sponsored by the New York City Partnership, a group of more than 100 business and civic leaders who banded together in 1979 to improve the economic and social climate of New York City. One area of concern was the high rate of teenage unemployment; thus the summer Jobs Program was created. In the past two years, the Partnership, in cooperation with the New York Telephone Company in 1981 and Citibank in 1982, placed over 25,000 economically disadvantaged young people in meaningful summer jobs. A private-sector jobs program is a much needed endeavor with teenage unemployment currently at 35% in New York City, compared to the national level of 22%, and New York City minority unemployment at 51.1% (according to U.S. Dept. of Labor third quarter figures).

This year, Philip Morris is spearheading the jobs effort with CEO, George Weissman, serving as General Chairman. The Summer Jobs staff will place youth in a variety of entry-level jobs ranging from bookkeeper to picklepacker, in companies ranging from the Fortune 50 down to small neighborhood businesses. Young people (age 16-21) will be employed 7-8 weeks, a minimum of 20 hours a week, receiving at least minimum wage ($3.35). Employers benefit too-they can train and select potential future employees, replace vacationing employees, and build positive community relations.

Philip Morris is not alone in this worthwhile venture. Organizations such as Citibank, New York Telephone, Metropolitan Life, Con Edison and the New York State Job Service are loaning personnel to help locate jobs. In addition, the Private Industry Council, a business service organization, will coordinate a referral system that will match thousands of young people to job openings.

Many companies have already given their support for the Summer Jobs Program; for example, Wang Laboratories, Inc. has donated computers to aid in the automation of the matching process; Well, Rich, Greene Inc. has developed an ad campaign, pro bono, featuring young people who worked in the Summer Jobs Program last summer. Businesses can lend support in many ways. In addition to providing jobs, companies can donate money, goods, services and personnel. Individuals can get involved by promoting the program among friends and colleagues and by spreading the word to businesses in their neighborhood.

The Summer Jobs '83 Program needs you. If you would like to be a part of the excitement or would like more information, call or write G. Margaret Hennes, Staff Directors, at 878-2806, Philip Morris Incorporated, 100 Park Avenue, fourth floor, New York, NY 10017.

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