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'''Unemployment program''' is a program or project undertaken to assist [[Unemployment|unemployed]] members of the population in securing employment.{{Fact|Can't seem to find a suitable definition, so once again adapting one from Wikipedia. All hail the great Wikipedia!}}

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==Private programs==
* One privately funded program recommended by the [[General Accounting Office]] is "STRIVE" (Support and Training Results in Valuable Employment), in New York City’s East Harlem, primarily serves inner-city minorities and focuses on developing in clients a proper work attitude needed for successful employment rather than on providing occupational skills training. The program is noted for its strict, confrontational, and "no-nonsense" approach.<ref name="GAO_Testimony">Carlotta C. Joyner. [http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GAOREPORTS-T-HEHS-96-127/pdf/GAOREPORTS-T-HEHS-96-127.pdf "Employment Training: Successful Projects Share Common Strategy"] (pdf), ''United States General Accounting Office'', GAO Testimony Before the Subcommittee on Human Resources and Intergovernmental Relations, Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, House of Representatives. April 18, 1996. Referenced 2012-12-02.</ref> As of 1997, at its 19 sites in New York, Boston, Pittsburgh, and Chicago, Strive has put almost 14,000 people, 35 to 40 percent of them men, to work during a five-year period, at the modest cost of $1,500 each. Where most programs count themselves successful if participants are working after a final three-month follow-up, Strive, whose other defining characteristic is a lifetime commitment to clients, has been able to ensure that close to 80 percent of those placed are still working after two years.<ref name="Hymowitz_Works">Kay S. Hymowitz [http://www.city-journal.org/html/7_1_a1.html "At Last, A Job Program That Works"], ''City Journal'', Winter 1997. Referenced 2012-12-02.</ref>

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==Links==
* [[Wikipedia:Job creation program|Job creation program]]s on Wikipedia

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