Jon's Corner of the Whirled » American Recovery and Reinvestment Act http://getchabug.com/Jon/blog Life in Portland Oregon as a Software Developer Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:17:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Slackers are people too http://getchabug.com/Jon/blog/2009/03/23/slackers-are-people-too/ http://getchabug.com/Jon/blog/2009/03/23/slackers-are-people-too/#comments Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:55:16 +0000 Jon http://www.getchabug.com/Jon/blog/?p=423 While reading the summary of Oregon’s benefits from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, I was amused to see that “slackers” are now a Targetted Group that can be used by a business as a tax credit:

“Under current law, businesses are allowed to claim a work opportunity tax credit equal to 40 percent of the first $6,000 of wages paid to employees of one of nine targeted groups … The bill creates two new targeted groups of prospective employees: unemployed veterans and disconnected youth. … An individual qualifies as a disconnected youth if they are between the ages of 16 and 25 and have not been regularly employed or attended school in the past 6 months.”  

Does that mean that we will now see signs outside businesses that say “Slackers Wanted”? :)

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