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Employ Milwaukee: 2,276 summer applicants, capacity for about 800; council presses for more funding
Summary
Employ Milwaukee told the advisory council it has received 2,276 Earn and Learn applications but currently plans to serve roughly 800 participants; council members urged private partnerships, sponsorships and possibly a $3 million target to expand slots.
Cody Harding of Employ Milwaukee told the Emerging Youth Achievement Advisory Council on April 23 that the Earn and Learn Community Work Experience has received 2,276 applications but can currently serve approximately 800 participants.
Harding, the program's performance and reporting analyst, described Earn and Learn as a subsidized work-experience program for people ages 14–24 that covers wages for 20 hours per week over seven weeks at $12.21 per hour and provides onboarding (I-9 and W-4 help), financial-literacy training and free noncustodial bank accounts. "We subsidize the wages 100% for all the participants in the program for 20 hours per week over 7 weeks in the summer at a…
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