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Major Owens: “A program to train people for 1 year. In 1 year of training one can get certain categories of jobs: practical nurse…”

On the recordMarch 24, 1994
A program to train people for 1 year. In 1 year of training one can get certain categories of jobs: practical nurse, child care aide, and one or two others. So just to have a 1-year training, one gets trained for a job that is going to definitely be there and stay there. Those jobs are always there. If one gets 2 years' worth of support and can go to school for 2 years, then they can enter the middle class.
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Major Owens
New York

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Discussing job training programs and their impact on employment opportunities.

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