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...supply since the Federal Government gutted its summer-jobs program about a decade ago. But the Obama Administration is changing all that, having directed $1.2 billion to pay for summer jobs for youths. Every state is now flush with stimulus dollars - ranging from about $3 million (in Wyoming, South Dakota and other low-population states) to $186 million (California) - to fund local job programs. Most states have started hiring, and many kids are already in their first weeks of work. The White House estimates that the stimulus money will create 125,000 jobs for low-income youths, though outside experts...
...born reporter of Iranian and Japanese descent had become a cause celebre back home in America because of her incarceration and sentencing. A former Miss North Dakota, she studied journalism at Northwestern University before moving to Iran six years ago. Before her press credentials were withdrawn in 2006, Saberi had been a freelance reporter for various media outlets, including the BBC World Service, NPR, and Fox News...
...Saberi entered the Miss North Dakota beauty pageant at the urging of a college instructor. She won, and became one of the final 10 contestants in that year's Miss America Pageant - the only finalist of Asian descent and the first recipient of the pageant's "Scholar Award...
...embarrassed to look differently and have parents from different countries. It took me awhile to learn that it's good to be different and it's important to respect others' differences." - Talking to her local newspaper a day after beating 19 other contestants to become Miss North Dakota (Bismark Tribune, June...
...initial version of this article wrongly stated that Saberi was born in Belleville, North Dakota...