The latest analysis of Boston’s Summer Youth Employment Program, which employs over 10,000 Boston youth ages 14-22 with over 900 local employers each summer, finds that program participation is linked to improved academic and economic outcomes, as well as a decline in criminal
A key wedge driving the gap between Boston’s affluent and low- and middle-income residents is credit. While good credit opens the door to low-cost loans, poor or no credit can make innumerable life transactions more expensive, from car loans to
For generations of American youth, the summer job has been an iconic marker of growing up, taking on responsibility, and earning some degree of financial independence. But in recent decades, this pivotal life experience has become scarcer and scarcer. In
In November 2015 Phillip Beltz and his partner moved to Boston to start a new chapter of their lives together. Beltz, then 62, began his job search with confidence. He had a master’s degree in social work, glowing references, and
Past dusk on a recent November evening, over a dozen women – mostly strangers – gathered in a third-floor conference space at JVS CareerSolution to confront an unfortunate reality that bound them. “I don’t think it’s something talked about ever,”