Word: program
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Lisa Dodson, a fellow at the Radcliffe Public Policy Institute and co-author of a report on welfare in Cambridge and Boston, blames the lack of interest in DTA workshops on the program's futility rather than the clients' bad habits...
However, a new follow-up program is one payoff from the time limits. Workers from the Mass. Dept. of Public Health will be conducting home visits and serving as a go-between for former recipients and sources of help...
Dina D. Ronnet, a participant in Just-a-Start's YouthBuild program who has been on TAFDC since she lost her job a year ago due to an illness, says she looks forward to self-sufficiency...
...year-long program combines high-school education and community service and is open to 17-to 24-year-old residents of Boston, Cambridge and Somerville. If students complete 900 hours of community service through the program, they receive a $2,300 scholarship, redeemable for at any federally accredited educational institution or training program...
Ricky says the program differs from his South Boston high school, from which he dropped out. There, he says, "I didn't feel I was being taught anything, I was just lost...