Coalition to hire young workers

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Marissa Brent-Tookey

Marissa Brent-Tookey Feb 6, 2018

Feb 6, 2018

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                <h1>Coalition to hire young workers</h1>
                <h2><p>Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz has recruited 17 other big employers, including Microsoft and Alaska Airlines, to what he's calling the "100,000 Opportunities Initiative." The goal is to hire 100,000 unemployed young people by the end of 2018. According to KIRO TV, the initiative'</p></h2>
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               <p>By <a href="/author/marissa-brent-tookey-crosscut-com/">Marissa Brent-Tookey</a></p> 
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            <p>Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz has recruited 17 other big employers, including Microsoft and Alaska Airlines, to what he's calling the "100,000 Opportunities Initiative." The goal is to hire 100,000 unemployed young people by the end of 2018. <a href="http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/starbucks-ceo-spearheads-plan-hire-100000-unemploy/nmxwf/?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">According to KIRO TV</a>, the initiative's members will also sponsor job fairs across the U.S.  It's hard to imagine such members as like Walmart, Taco Bell and CVS would need the motivation of an initiative to hire young people at low or minimum wages, but we'll find out in two years whether it will put a dent in the 5.5 million unemployed.</p>
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Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz has recruited 17 other big employers, including Microsoft and Alaska Airlines, to what he's calling the "100,000 Opportunities Initiative." The goal is to hire 100,000 unemployed young people by the end of 2018. According to KIRO TV, the initiative's members will also sponsor job fairs across the U.S. It's hard to imagine such members as like Walmart, Taco Bell and CVS would need the motivation of an initiative to hire young people at low or minimum wages, but we'll find out in two years whether it will put a dent in the 5.5 million unemployed.

By Marissa Brent-Tookey

Marissa Brent-Tookey is an editorial intern at Crosscut. She holds a B.A. in French from Seattle University and now studies film production at Shoreline Community College. In addition to crewing a doz