THE WASHINGTON POST, MONDAY, APRIL 14, 1980
IÛªve Just been talking with Jesse Jack* : son about his plans for a May 17 protest : march here, and IÛªm still trying to</br></br>Joblessness among black teen-agers, particularly in cities, is at once a social ; waste, a national disgrace and a ticking ; time bomb. So perhaps what Jackson has in mind is a demand for special jobs f programs for this specially disadvan* j taged group.</br></br>*	Not really, he told me. He said he re* 1 cognizes the political folly of making 7 demands only on behalf of black people : during a period when an awful lot of ÛªWhat he has in mind, said the Chicagoan, is to demand better job oppor* tunities for everybody. After all, he</br></br>He agreed. ÛÏWe have to focus atten* lion on the need to straighten out the Whole economic situation,Û he said.</br></br>Û¢1 told him I thought the attention is already focused. What is missing is not attention but ideas for doing something about the problem. 1 begin, I said, with the assumption that Jimmy Carter wants an improved economy at least as much as Jesse Jackson and that if he knew how to produce it, he would have done so the day before yesterday.