$ 20 million to provide 6,500
jobs for young people during the school year (the Work, Learn and Grow program) and 70,000 summer jobs (the Summer Youth Employment Program).
During the recession just a few years ago,
young people were graduating into a
job market that simply wasn't there; the national unemployment rate
for workers under 25 peaked at 19.5 % in April 2010 (compared to a peak of around 10 %
for the country as a whole).