Milwaukee works to solve job crisis
A little over a mile from the site of Saturday night’s riots in Milwaukee, a small church that once was a tavern now is home to one of the more improbable efforts to lift the economic fortunes of some of the city’s poorest black residents.
That effort, called the Joseph Project, has humble roots. Across the street stand five boarded-up storefronts and an abandoned gas station surrounded by a fence topped with barbed wire.
But the project, launched last fall on a shoestring budget dependent on donations, has 78 people currently placed in jobs that its director says pay $12.80 to $18.50 an hour.
On Monday, a handful of new job seekers sat in the windowless sanctuary of the church — the Greater Praise Church of God in Christ at 5422 W. Center St. — and listened to the testimony of three of the program’s veterans.
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