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University Daily Kansan, April 30, 1982
Page 3
Economy may reduce summer job availability
By JOEL THORTON
Staff Reporter
But because of the worsening economic situation, KU students may have a hard time finding employment this summer. Ed Hirschman, the founder of the Kansas Job Service, said recently,
Summer jobs in the past have been as plentiful with 99-degree days in July.
"If the economy continues in its current pattern, it may be as difficult for students to find jobs as it has been for 10 years," Mills said.
MILLS SAID traditional summer jobs, such as construction and agriculture,
For example, about 1,300 construction workers normally work during the summer in Lawrence, many of them college students. A lot of them will be down to about 900 workers. Mills said.
"That is the general trend of the depressed attitude," he said.
In other cities, officials fear increased crime and urban unrest may occur this summer because of cuts in the summer youth employment program, a U.S. conference of mayors survey showed last Monday.
A survey of 125 cities showed nearly 90 percent planning to serve fewer youths this year than in 1981, with only one of five states having a plan to dip into this year's summer jobs problem.
In Douglas County, that will be the case, Mills said.
MAYOR HELEN Boosalis of Lincoln, Neb., head of the Mayor's conference, said a news conference that city officials in the district have tiring daysl in the streets this summer.
"When a considerable amount of skilled laborers don't have jobs, students will hire them."
March's unemployment rate in Douglas County was 4.3 percent, Mills said. Although that figure is well below the national rate of 9 percent, whenever the rate is above 4 percent, students' job opportunities are diminished, he said.
Mills said there would be problems when school ended and 500 to 1,000 KU students, as well as 3,000 government employees, entered the Lawrence job market.
He said students would have the best chance of finding employment in the service industry, which included restaurants, stores and gas stations.
THE JOB Service Center usually helps 800 students find job each summer. Milton
The center acts as an intermediary between applicants and employers, Mills said. Applicants fill out forms with their educational and skill qualifications, and submit them to the applications and sends the names of the most qualified applicants to employers.
Mills said the center normally placed 20 to 25 percent of the student applicants. He said that many of the students his agency had enrolled were not employed became discouraged and stopped looking.
"We will be lucky if half of those we don't place get jobs this summer," he said.
Anthony Redwood, associate professor of business and director of the KU Institute of Economic and Business Research, said the unfavorable summer job outlook was the result of the delayed impact of the national recession hitting Kansas.
HE SAID THAT because Kansas was less industrialized than some of the Eastern states, it was feeling the effects of the recession later than the other states.
Redwood said recent factory layoffs had reduced workers' purchasing power in areas where students worked, such as at the university. He also compares with students for summer jobs.
"Students are not immune to the national condition," he said.
Lawrence employers gave varied forecasts for the summer job outlook.
Eric Walter, director of personnel at Packer Plastics Inc., said his company had not been affected much by the recession.
Walther said Packer would hire 50 students on a part-time basis this summer, many of them from KU. Preferential treatment is given to students who work for the company during the school year, he said.
"WE MANUFACTURE plastic food containers, hence our business hasn't been hit by the economic downturn like manufacturers," he said.
However, officials at two other businesses said they would not be hiring as many summer employees as usual because of the recession.
Mike Sullivan, director of personnel at Lawrence Paper Co., said his firm was hiring 10 to 15 students this summer, several fewer than in recent years.
Pam Seltis, an inventory specialist at E and E Specialties Inc., said her company had already hired 25 persons for full-time work in "the busy" season of April through August.
Selts said many of the summer employees at E and E, which manufactures displays for grocery stores, are KU students.
E and E normally employs 25 to 30 people during the busy season, she said. Although the company may hire that many this summer the staff said, still had to be on hand to serve necessarily.
CHRIST MURRAY, Tangonian fresher, said he had applied for work with the company.
"It doesn't look like I have a very good chance!" he said. "I had a hard time hearing."
'Most places are just taking applations,' he said. 'I'm not doing so hot'
Henn said he had considered applying at local printing shop, where the owner knew him.
Bill Henn, Lenexa sophomore, said man in place where he had applied wife in place.
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He said he needed to find a job to stay in school.
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