Congress urged to create youth jobs in nonprofits 11/18/09

Congress should provide close to $1.5-billion in extra spending on national-service programs over the next two years to provide jobs for young people who have been hit hard by the economic crisis, a new report <http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/11/national_service.html> by the Center for American Progress argues. The report suggests that the effort could help both young people who are experiencing the country’s highest unemployment rates in years and nonprofit groups that could use youth workers to help meet the rising demand for antipoverty services.