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INTRODUCTORY*
CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)
Introduced by: Councilmember Clarke
A RESOLUTION ENTITLED
A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
Title
Peer-to-Peer Youth Enterprises Investment Fund - Recovery and Reinvestment Act Funding
FOR the purpose of requesting that the Administration include a $3 million line item in the 2009-2010 City budget for the Peer-to-Peer Youth Enterprises Investment Fund to expand the number of individual Peer-to-Peer Youth Enterprises in Baltimore City.
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WHEREAS, The recently passed Recovery and Reinvestment Act contained $1.2 billion for youth employment services, including summer and year-round employment; and
WHEREAS, Maryland will gain $11.7 million from the Recovery and Reinvestment Act for youth employment services; and
WHEREAS, Peer-to-Peer Youth Enterprises provide year-round employment for young people in Baltimore in an innovative and effective way; and
WHEREAS, These groups hire young people to teach or train other young people a skill, trade, or knowledge, and thus paid peers enter the knowledge-based economy and positively affect other young people; and
WHEREAS, Peer-to-Peer jobs are in a different category than low skilled jobs, and the stimulus should not subsidize traditional employers to hire young people and push adults out of the low skilled jobs needed; and
WHEREAS, Over 20 after school and out-of-school groups have a Peer-to-Peer Youth Enterprise component to their work with very p...
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