"Internship" helps older workers get jobs

WASHINGTON -  

The job market is tough nowadays, especially for older workers who are nearer to retirement.

This is a lesson learned by Minh Nguyen, a 54-year-old who has been out of work for more than two years.  She recently found a job that pays her $13 an hour, but despite the low pay she took it.

She is working for a non-profit company, and it’s a job she found through a training program geared towards people older than 50 who are looking for work.

The privately funded program puts people in eight weeks of subsidized employment at a company with a job opening.

So far 59 out of the first 91 participants have jobs.