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Training Youths in the Ways of the Workplace

January 25, 2011 /

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Bear Paw Development Corporation is a private non-profit organization created for the purpose of administering programs to help improve regional economic conditions in Hill, Blaine, Liberty, Chouteau and Phillips Counties and the Fort Belknap and Rocky Boy's Indian Reservations.

Year Up assists disadvantaged, mostly minority youths, whose only academic requirement is a high school degree or equivalency degree. It offers a six-month training program followed by a six-month internship in a large corporation like State Street, Fidelity Investments, JP Morgan Chase, Partners Healthcare, or AOL.

The researchers looked at students in the year following graduation — during the middle of the recession — and found that participants earned, on average, almost $3,500, or 30 percent, more than the students outside the program.

By DAVID BORNSTEIN

Full Story: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/24/an-education-in-the-ways-of-the-workplace/?hp