The author was the co-teacher of an SYEP class in his hometown of New Britain in the summer of 1996. Prior to this blog post, it was the most useful thing he'd ever done.
A rally today will call on the de Blasio administration to add money to the budget for summer youth employment, which has shrunk even as teen unemployment remains startling high.
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