Sean C. Morgan
The Linn County Board of Commissioners agreed recently to help pay the wages for a summer employee at Cascade Timber Consulting as part of an ongoing program meant to encourage employers to hire and teach work skills to first-time workers.
The program has included 128 businesses and 442 employees since it started in 2006. Under the program, the county pays $2 per hour of a first-time youth worker’s wages.
“You sign up…