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...Just-A-Start Corporation, a Cambridge non-profit dedicated to developing and maintaining affordable housing while also arranging education and job training services for low-income residents, is facing substantial cuts to three of its programs—Youthbuild, Mediation for Results, and Biomedical Careers Training...
...Youthbuild, which helps 30 to 40 out-of-school youths earn a high school diploma or GED while participating in affordable housing construction programs throughout the year, has lost $83,000 of its state funding, or roughly 30 percent of its budget. Mediation for Result, which helps resolve tenant-landlord disputes, has seen half of its state funding disappear, and Biomedical Careers Training has had its $140,000 state funding allocation eliminated entirely...
...Just-a-Start Executive Director Gordon Gottsche said that the cuts would force Youthbuild to reduce its student body by 10 to 12 students in the near future, and that student stipends for food, transport, and medical care might need to be trimmed as well...
...example of a great AmeriCorps-funded program is YouthBuild, which gives unemployed low-income young people in neighborhoods around the country a chance to complete their education and rebuild their communities by creating affordable housing. In exchange for their service, they get a stipend and spend half their time in classes to take the high school equivalency exam and prepare for college. Dorothy Stoneman ’63 started YouthBuild in 1978 in East Harlem and funded it initially by appealing to local organizations and later private foundations. But it wasn’t until 1994 that the program...
With the downturn in the economy and new jobs being generated at below-normal levels, demand for AmeriCorps programs like YouthBuild is at an all-time high. “There are 2.4 million low-income youth across this country who have not completed high school or they’ve finished high school and they don’t have jobs,” said Vugrin. It will be very difficult for these people to get jobs that pay enough to support themselves and their families and help the economy unless the federal government allocates money to train them...