The International Labor Organization (ILO) has recently expressed its concerns about young people around the world experiencing weak connections to the adult world of work. The ILO believes that in southern tier countries the major issue is the supply of jobs. But workforce issues, the skills of young people and their connection to job markest are also important. In 2005 the Lula government in Brazil echoed these concerns with the launching of its Pro Jovens program designed to subsidize employers who provide jobs to youth. A new study written by Malcolm Bush, Woodstock Institute president and board member of the International Center for the Study of Childhood (CIESPI) at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, using data generously provided by the Rio based Instituto de Estudos do Trabahlo e Sociedade, points to the problems facing young people in one low-income community in Rio, Caju, but also to the diversity of the young people´s educational and work experiences.