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By Julie Scharper, The Baltimore Sun | July 19, 2010
With no federal stimulus money available this year, participation in a key summer employment program for city youth has fallen to the lowest level since before the recession began. About 5,400 young people have been placed in jobs this summer through the city's YouthWorks program. That's down from last year's peak of 7,000 jobs, when about $2 million in stimulus funds was pumped into the program. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake preserved the city's contribution of $1.6 million to the program, despite the city's bleakest budget in recent memory.
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By Julie Scharper and Baltimore Sun reporter | March 10, 2010
The coats -- one fashioned from lustrous mink, the other from whorls of sable-colored Persian lamb -- rest on hangers from a high-end furrier. A tag is looped around each fur, marked with the name of the woman who once owned them, and, in bold, black letters: "EVIDENCE." One would not normally expect to find two fur coats hanging in a conference room in the Office of the State Prosecutor. But these furs have a remarkable past: gifts to Baltimore's former mayor, Sheila Dixon, from a developer ex-boyfriend, they were seized by investigators after Dixon failed to disclose them on city ethics forms.
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By Larry Carson and Larry Carson,larry.carson@baltsun.com | July 12, 2009
Recently moved from Northern Virginia to his dad's home in Columbia, 16-year-old Xavier T. Bates found a summer job despite the recession, thanks to some help from the federal government. Like 27 other Howard County youths, Bates is working 25 hours a week for six weeks, making $8 an hour in federal stimulus money in what officials say is the first summer jobs program of its kind in the county in years. He plans to contribute some of his earnings to his family while also saving for college, he said.
NEWS
June 19, 2005
BALTIMORE Juvenile Justice Center fight leaves 3 staff members hurt Three staff members at the state-run Baltimore Juvenile Justice Center were slightly injured yesterday during an altercation with a group of teenagers, an official said. LaWanda Edwards, a spokeswoman for the center on North Gay Street, said the incident occurred about 11 a.m. as staff members were taking seven teens out for recreation. She said one teen became "unruly, and allegedly hit a staff member." As staff members tried to calm the teen, others joined the fracas, Edwards said.
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By Laurie Willis and Laurie Willis,SUN STAFF | August 1, 2003
Across Baltimore, thousands of teen-agers and young adults are getting a taste of what it is like to arrive on time for work, follow a supervisor's instructions and budget money. For some of them, it is the first time they have worked anywhere other than a fast-food restaurant. And for others, it is their first time working. Crystal Hardy, 16, a Forest Park High School honors student who will be a junior when school starts, is among the 5,500 people ages 14 to 21 who have been placed in jobs this summer by the city-sponsored YouthWorks 2003 program.
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By Joe Nawrozki and Joe Nawrozki,SUN STAFF | July 26, 1999
Stacks of classroom furniture line the darkened hallways of Patapsco High School in eastern Baltimore County. On an afternoon thick with haze, doors yawn open to catch the slightest gift of a summer breeze.Here in a school mostly shuttered for the summer, Edward Wiley Jr., 14, and fellow members of Summer Enrichment Camp -- a branch of America's summer jobs program -- are expanding their horizons through the program born in the tumultuous 1960s.Not long ago, the soft-spoken Wiley thought he was headed for the steel mill like his father and grandfather.