Wanted: employers to step up

Officials urge employers to boost teens' summer job prospects

Dioni Daley (left), 14, and Sharinel Montolio, 15, talked about summer job prospects yesterday. (Wendy Maeda/Globe Staff)

By Michael Levenson

Globe Staff / March 28, 2009

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Officials anticipating a crush of teenagers looking for work this summer, as unemployment soars to its highest levels in more than a decade, are pumping $30 million, mostly in federal money, into programs to fund 10,000 summer jobs in 60 of the state's poorest communities over the next two years. (Full article: 975 words)