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| The Right People . . . the Winning Formula | |
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The economy is booming and jobs are plentiful, but the survival of 60,000 Philadelphia families still perilously hinges on public assistance, food stamps, and Medicaid. Welfare recipients and low-income people want — and soon will be compelled — to get off the dole and onto the career ladder, but the positions offered them are mainly dead-end minimum wage jobs that won’t support their families. These unskilled, unconnected Philadelphians believe they are hopelessly trapped in joblessness, poverty, and dependency. The chronically unemployed pose a daunting challenge, but a unique program at the Campus Boulevard Corporation is scoring stunning success in training just such people and placing them in well-paid entry-level career opportunities . . . |
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 All Writing Samples Copyright © 1998 Lois Seeligsohn |
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