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NY State Funds Summer Jobs For At-Risk Youth

By Ryan Morden

Oswego, NY – One strategy New York state is using to stimulate the economy is by pledging money to put at-risk youths to work this summer. Central New York is slated to receive nearly 6-million dollars - some of that money comes from the Federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. WRVO's Ryan Morden attended a youth job fair to see the eager teenage work-force lining up for the summer jobs.