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I want you to give me a list of 3 names or 3 people that you know for reference other than your family or your relatives. Now this is an example of the employment activity that we have as a part of the program, Jerry. And this fellow

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needs a job. Yeah, this is Ronnie Robinson and Frank, who's one of our employment counselors and as I say, it's just a part of all the things that we're trying to do for the kids in the Mission. How successful have you been, Eric, in finding jobs

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for these dropouts and otherwise unemployable people so far? Well, we've been extremely successful. Uh, one of the things being that we get out and hustle for the jobs, we get out and actually try and get the employers to hire these kids rather than go through any of

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the other organizations, we do it ourselves. We heard about 2000 jobs being available through the Chamber of Commerce. We had a Mr. Hicks from the Chamber of Commerce come down here, and we discovered that the jobs that were available were for scientists and engineers and things of

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that sort, and we're dealing with a bunch of teenagers here, and these guys need jobs that they can perform. We represent only the kids, not Republicans, Democrats, nothing, just the kids, and we would like to sit down for a meaningful discussion about getting kids into trainee

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jobs, not weed pulling or grass cutting, meaningful jobs. The response I've had from the unions has been terrific. I'm really gratified. I hope that we can come to some sort of agreement with them.