About 15,000 homes and small businesses have signed up for the program.

So far more than 1,300 families have signed up for the free program.

Manufacturing, on the other hand, signed up for the program late in the game.

The largest number of candidates to sign up for the 13-year-old program was 256 in 1991.

Over all, 2,817 couples have signed up for the program.

Only 6 percent did not work at all despite signing up for the program.

But of the 1,500 students to sign up for the program last year, only 534 completed the requirements and received jobs.

Though about 30 women signed up for the program, only a handful came to the first meeting.

About 18 million acres have been signed up for the program.

Manhattan residents will have two months to sign up for the program.