Kenneth Mitchell accepted a full-time job last Friday. He hosted and cooked dinner for friends on Saturday. Before his first day on the job earlier this week, he opened his closet and pondered multiple options to wear. “It’s like, ‘wow, I have options,’” Mitchell said. “It’s nothing but for the grace of God.” As recently …
More than half of Greater Cincinnati residents in poverty have at least one job, which means hundreds of local companies have employees who need public assistance just to make ends meet. “I think that was news to many of the employers we work with,” said Meghan Cummings, Executive Director of the Women’s Fund of the …
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Mike Kralik listened intently as local companies described the challenges and triumphs of hiring traditionally hard-to-hire individuals – those with criminal records or in poverty or facing other barriers to employment. Kralik is the plant manager at Continental Building Products, and they are considering a similar effort. In addition to tapping into a new pool …
After four people were shot in East Price Hill early this summer, Mitch Morris and our Phoenix Program outreach team spent two hours every Friday for six straight weeks on Warsaw Avenue, distributing water and flyers and talking about the role Cincinnati Works can play in changing lives. Mitch and his crew were joined at times by representatives …
The State of Ohio would need a forest’s worth of trees to print every law on its books, which is why many law offices only utilize the online version of the Ohio Revised Code. “The text is massive,” attorney Sasha Naiman said, stretching her hands as far apart as possible. “There are almost 1,000 laws …
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