Unemployment Programs In Frederick County Contrast Youth Corps And Mainstream
During summer, two federal funded programs operated in Frederick County. Neighborhood Youth Corps offered 168 teens aged 14 to 18 a 26 hour week at 1.25 dollars per hour for seven weeks, costing about 33,000 dollars. Operation Mainstream trained 16 hard core unemployables as construction workers at roughly 15,000 dollars every two months, with wages plus education. Both aimed to break the poverty cycle by channeling federal funds through local efforts to lift participants into productive work.