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Black Lawmakers Urge Bush to Restore Urban Youth Program

he Congressional Black Caucus has appealed to President Bush on behalf of the National Urban League's Urban Youth Empowerment Program, which is set to be slashed from the budget of the Department of Labor next week. The funding, which enables the program to provide much-needed services to young people to reduce recidivism and to help them complete their high school education and to find jobs, will be terminated this week.

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