Word: alcohols
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Welfare professionals have a term for these persistent welfare cases: the hard to serve. Many have backgrounds that employers shun: weak education, illiteracy, drug and alcohol abuse, mental-health problems and criminal records. Often they also have logistical obstacles, like transportation and child-care difficulties. And, some argue, many of them have the toughest barrier of all: they don't want to do work...
...thrown out the old rules about who can get hired. With the national unemployment rate at 4.3%--and at less than 3% in some states--businesses are dipping deeper into the labor pool than ever before. The Welfare to Work Partnership has been placing recovering drug addicts and alcohol abusers in private-sector jobs. Even job applicants with criminal records are getting hired. UPS, for one, has "relaxed" its practice of not hiring ex-cons, says Rodney Carroll, a UPS executive who serves as chief operating officer of the Welfare to Work Partnership...
...Assistant Dean Keith R. Moon says if students have drugs or alcohol in their possession, they are sent home with virtually no exceptions...
...Almost in every case where a student has been found using drugs or alcohol, that student has been expelled," Moon says...
Students and staff both say everyone in SSP is well aware of the rules about alcohol and drugs--and the consequences of breaking them...