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Eleanor Holmes Norton: “It is not acceptable to have Federal funds being used on a construction project today without doing some kind of…”

On the recordDecember 1, 2009
It is not acceptable to have Federal funds being used on a construction project today without doing some kind of apprenticeship development on that project.
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
Democratic · District of Columbia

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Criticism of federal projects lacking workforce development initiatives.

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