Nov 6
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High school students sought to serve as Election
Inspectors for Presidential election
High School Students who are 16 or 17
years of age, enrolled in grades 9-12, and have at least a 3.0 GPA may apply to
serve as election inspectors with the written approval of a parent/guardian.
Earn & Learn newsletter
Oct 8
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Milwaukee Bucks join Earn & Learn team
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett and the Milwaukee Bucks announced today a new
partnership to increase business participation in the Earn & Learn Summer Youth
Jobs Program.
Oct 3
National symposium to feature Palermo’s youth employment;
new partner, Milwaukee Bucks, to host event
A workshop highlighting Palermo Pizza’s
summer youth employment program will be one of several to be held at a national
youth employment symposium in Chicago.
Earn & Learn newsletter
Sept
22
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Student focus:
Agape Community Center
Mayor Barrett’s Earn & Learn program
encompasses a variety of students in various work settings. Three Earn & Learn
employees at Agape Community Center recently described their experiences at the
Center and proved why Earn & Learn works. Jul
22
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Hope in the lives of young people; 1,500 gain experience through Earn & Learn
As she topped hundreds of white-bread
slices with salami at the Milwaukee Center for Independence, Tamika Gray talked
about going to college to major in criminal justice....The sandwiches she was
making are just one result of her new job with the city’s Earn and Learn
program, which she said got her thinking about college in the first place. Jul
1, JSOnline
Youth to get a slice of the pie; Palermo Villa a leader in city's summer jobs
program
As a child busing tables and washing dishes at his family's pizzeria on the east
side, Giacomo Fallucca experienced the value of work and learning from an older
generation. After hearing Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett's pitch for the Earn &
Learn summer youth employment program, Fallucca decided that his business,
Palermo Villa Inc., should enlist. "It really just spoke to my heart," said
Fallucca, president and chief executive officer of the maker of Palermo's frozen
pizzas.
Apr 23, JSOnline
Interns cleaning up city’s image
The mayor’s interns are helping Milwaukee
clean up its image. Literally.
Five teens from Mayor Tom Barrett’s internship work program picked up garbage,
swept, mopped, and cleaned windows in a building at N. 27th St. and Wells St.
one warm sunny morning as part of their job as neighborhood workers. They are
among hundreds of youth scattered around the city.
Urban Voice
Palermo’s offers interns pizza, jobs
“I just like pizza,” answered Alice Jones,
17, Travis Academy, when asked why she was interested in an internship at
Palermo’s Pizza, 3301 W. Canal St. Palermo’s offers frozen and fresh pizzas and
paid internships for local high school students. “We do this so that the
students can gain experience in the field of business. It is also an opportunity
for students to earn some extra cash during the summer,” said Susan Gibbs,
manager of Palermo’s.
Urban Voice
Program praised for healing social ills
Daisy C. Cubias strongly believes that
Mayor Tom Barrett’s teen internship program will prevent further increases in
violence, teen pregnancy and school drop out rate. “Milwaukee will definitely
improve if we can get to the youth early and give them some true form of
responsibility” said Cubias, staff assistant to Barrett
Urban Voice
