Word: hires
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Operating on a tight budget, the Corporation has still been able to hire a first rate firm, Architects' Collaborative, to draw up the project's design. The Corporation is also pushing to get City Hall to declare City Stables the site of an Urban Renewal Project. If the site can't be purchased under the Urban Renewal program, rent for the housing will have to jump $15 per month...
...Walter Ducey, such complaints indicate that tomorrow may already be yesterday. In the past 18 months, says Ducey, "there's been a very clear trend toward an increase of complaints about refusal to promote or train because of color, and a proportionate drop in complaints about refusal to hire because of race...
Company training programs are the biggest area of student dissatisfaction. The "over-hire" method, or the survival-of-the-fittest program is one big reason for dissatisfaction. The other big reason is the inability to gear training programs to the potentials of the student...
Gopen also helps local residents find jobs by organizing employment nights at South End House. He brings large-scale employers to the House to talk to local residents. The results are dramatic. "More people got hired on the day the phone company came here," Gopen beamed, "than the telephone company got through a whole year of advertising." Since the passage of job discrimination laws, many firms have wanted to hire members of minority groups. But the South End residents are sometimes too scared or too apathetic to travel all the way to a firm's main offices, Gopen explained...
...next week, the helmet directive was more gesture than substance, but it was the kind of gesture that had been sadly missing around city hall. A more pragmatic innovation is Stokes's plan to fully integrate police precinct squads regardless of the neighborhoods they serve. He tried to hire Edward Logue to head Cleveland's urban-renewal program, but Logue declined to leave Boston, instead will serve Stokes on a consulting basis. Meanwhile, Stokes is talent-hunting for a full-time urban-renewal director and other top officials; and he is drawing plans to produce more jobs...