Bring Back Summer Employment Program: At-Risk Youth Need a Little Help

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The higher the income the better their prospects, among their own race: 38 percent of Blacks from families with incomes over $75,000 a year were employed during the summer. But even Blacks from the most-affluent households were less likely to get jobs than whites from the least-affluent households: 45 percent of whites from families with incomes under $20,000 landed summer jobs for 2006.

Why does the federal government need to play a role in putting low-income disadvantaged youth into summer jobs? Because the likelihood of them securing employment without outside help is not very likely: In 2006, only 17 percent of young Blacks from families with household incomes under $20,000 managed to find summer jobs, according to a 2006 study by Northeastern University's Center for Labor Market Studies.

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Bring Back Summer Employment Program: At-Risk Youth Need a Little Help

With the end of the school year a few months away, the prospects of putting America's youth to work to keep them off the streets this summer are pretty meager, espec...

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