Youth rally for jobs at Statehouse

Community leaders and 80 youth from Worcester traveled to the Statehouse to protest the budget cut of Youthworks program that helps teenagers find jobs and is funded by the state. Youth and many other members of different communities rallied together with lobbyists to protest the widely popular program. The Youthworks program provides summer jobs for low income youth in about 25 cities in Massachusettes. After marching around Boston with signs the youth then met in the statehouse to speak with different organizations and goverment officials who had restored about $4million to the program last year that is now at risk of losing about $4.3million.
The program has supplied jobs for these teenagers and has been able to keep them off the street, away from violence and busy, providing them with positive experiences. The youth and city officials are lobbying together to prevent this budget cut that would put about 2,000 youth out of a job. This is a program that should be fought for due to positive impact it has had on the lives of the youth in these inner city communities and supplied them with a outlet that will only continue to help them towards their futures.