Teens hope Albany lobbying pays off with summer jobs
Brooklyn students who took part in a Youth Action Day in Albany to call for increased state funding the Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) are hoping their pleas to lawmakers will not fall on deaf ears.
The Brooklyn teens were part of a crowd of approximately 300 young people from New York City who traveled up to the State Capitol on Jan. 30 with the organization United Neighborhood Houses to lobby for funding.
SYEP is a vital program, according to many of the lobby day participants, because it provides many teenagers with their first summer jobs.