November/December 1998

      Developing Workers By Winton Pitcoff
      Community-based job training programs help workers develop the hard and soft skills needed to find gainful employment.

      Other Job Training Initiatives of Note

      Section 3 By Karen Ceraso
      A long ignored law holds promise of providing jobs for public housing residents – if people are informed about it on the grassroots level.

      Youthbuild By Winton Pitcoff
      This nationwide program links youth development and community development to transform lives.

      The Last Stop Sign By Gary Delgado
      Community organizers have won small victories, but to become a significant movement they must work with other progressive activists and confront difficult "wedge" issues.

      Some Good News for Organizers By John Atlas
      Focusing on issues of class and rebuilding civil institutions holds the key to overcoming concentrations of corporate wealth and power and spurring progressive reform.

      Colored People
      Poem by Charles H. Johnson

    DEPARTMENTS

      Editor's Note
      Shelter Shorts
      Short Takes
      Industry News
      Fundraising: Why People of Color Need to Be Good Fundraisers
      Organize!: Park 1 – Stadium 0
      Book Review: Jobs and Economic Development
      Washington News and Views: Creating an Economic Development Policy Infrastructure
      Legislative News
      Access


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