More Effective Management Is Needed To Improve the Quality of the Summer Youth Employment Program

The Department of Labor's (DOL) Summer Program for Economically Disadvantaged Youths has an admirable objective to provide youths meaningful work tasks and training to develop their skills and enhance their future employability. But, to be an effective tool to combat high unemployment rates among disadvantaged youths, the program must maintain congressional and public confidence that it is being carried out effectively and as economically as possible.