Youth Job Program Under Audit -- Expansion of Federal Stimulus Funds Left Workers Unpaid, Project Overwhelmed

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Federal and state auditors will review the use of millions in stimulus dollars that went to a local workforce agency to provide summer jobs for young people.

Over the next two weeks, the auditors will look at how $4.9 million in federal funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act were handled. The money to provide jobs for young people in the Memphis area was passed through the state to the Workforce Investment Network .

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Youth Job Program Under Audit -- Expansion of Federal Stimulus Funds Left Workers Unpaid, Project Overwhelmed

"They want to look at the time sheets, and they want to look at the folders to make sure everybody (who participated) was eligible," said James L. Russell, executiv...

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