City Program Will Place Young Adults in Paid Internships

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At a press conference yesterday, Mayor Bloomberg announced the launch of the Young Adult Internship Program, which will place people between 16 and 24 years old, who are unemployed and out of school, in paid internships around the city, in the hopes of teaching them marketable job skills. The new program, which city officials say is expected to enroll some 1,360 participants a year, will be run by the Center for Economic Opportunity.

The center, which was created by the mayor last year to test out new approaches to poverty, is ending its first year of operation with 31 of its 41 proposed antipoverty programs already under way, the mayor announced yesterday. It is funded by $150 million dollars in combined public and private money.


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