D.C. Council considers shutting down summer jobs program

Published July 26, 2009 4:00am ET



Mayor Adrian Fenty’s 2009 summer jobs program is so poorly managed that D.C. Council members said Monday that they might shut it down early.

The Summer Youth Employment Program discussion emerged as the council struggled, behind closed doors, to reach consensus on how to close looming deficits of $190 million in 2009 and $150 million in 2010. Members of the media were allowed to sit in.

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