Capital Area Michigan Works! put roughly 700 teens to this work this summer using $3.3 million from the federal government to find jobs for at-risk individuals age 14-24.
According to excerpts from the article:
Dominique Kowalk has been awake at 4:30 a.m. each weekday this summer so she can take the bus, drop her 6-month-old daughter at day care and get to work by 9 a.m.
The 23-year-old single mother doesn't complain. She says she's grateful for her full-time, minimum-wage summer job doing clerical work at Woldumar Nature Center.
Kowalk, of Lansing, got the job through Capital Area Michigan Works' summer youth employment program.
"Without this, I'd probably still be out there just filling out applications and not having any luck," she said. "This has helped tremendously."
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