I wonder how useful government funding is for summer jobs? .Multi-nationals can afford to hire summer students without government funding and they usually hire relatives or friends anyway. I was a job developer for a technical college for 10 years and our students and graduates got jobs without government funding. Our dean told me one time to contact the federal government about   government subsidized  jobs for graduates and there were only 45 jobs that they were funding and the government employee said I would have to find the jobs myself for the graduates and get an employer who was willing to fill out the paperwork,and I said forget it.