LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles County held a celebration Thursday to announce the start of its annual Youth@Work Program for at-risk youth ages 14- 24.
The program expects to help employ 20,000 youth this coming fiscal year starting July 1.
County Supervisor Hilda Solis said employing youth is even more important after the results of the recent 2017 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count found that youth homelessness rose 64 percent over a year in the county — although there was a greater effort this year to find and count homeless youth.
“Youth have an unemployment rate that is higher than the rest of the nation, at about 10 percent. And you know now more than ever our commitment has to be made to our young people,” Solis said.
TheYouth@Work Program, which helps match youth with employers through a network of America’s Job Centers of California, are targeted to priority populations with the highest need, including foster youth, probation youth, homeless youth and CalWORKS youth.
The local America’s Job Centers of California is located at 38510 Sierra Highway in Palmdale.
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Kelly says
… never in history has California lost more jobs, than under Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer. Affectinately referred to by the rest of the nation as “Mexifornia,” no region in America has incurred more job loss over the last decade, than Southern California –
Tim Scott says
LOL…this is what happens when you get your information from Breitbart and the right wing echo chamber Kelly. You post comments with these gigantic errors in them and wonder why people don’t respect you.