Unemployment program

Unemployment program is a program or project undertaken to assist unemployed members of the population in securing employment.

Private programs

 * One privately funded program recommended by the General Accounting Office is "STRIVE" (Support and Training Results in Valuable Employment), in New York City’s East Harlem, primarily serves inner-city minorities and focuses on developing in clients a proper work attitude needed for successful employment rather than on providing occupational skills training. The program is noted for its strict, confrontational, and "no-nonsense" approach. As of 1997, at its 19 sites in New York, Boston, Pittsburgh, and Chicago, Strive has put almost 14,000 people, 35 to 40 percent of them men, to work during a five-year period, at the modest cost of $1,500 each. Where most programs count themselves successful if participants are working after a final three-month follow-up, Strive, whose other defining characteristic is a lifetime commitment to clients, has been able to ensure that close to 80 percent of those placed are still working after two years.

Links

 * Job creation programs on Wikipedia