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Pay: Up to $10/hour, paid for by the federal government.
Wood County has $300,000 to use for a Summer Youth Employment Program, paid for by the federal program called Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.
The program is designed to help youth get a start in the workforce, at no cost to local employers.
"We are recruiting employers to take on some of our kids for the summer," said Mary DeWitt, director of the JobSolutions program which organizes the youth employment program at Wood County Job and Family Services.
"We can always use more," she said of employers willing to participate.
"We have the funds, so we're going to try to get as many youth employed this summer," DeWitt said. She would like to see at least 75 youth working in the program. "I would consider that a success."
The "stumbling block" to success is finding employers willing to take on the young workers.
"It's finding that match," DeWitt said.