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NEW Program for Women
NEW (Nontraditional Employment for Women) prepares women for nontraditional careers in the construction, utilities, and transportation industries. Through its innovative training programs, NEW graduates successfully compete for skilled blue-collar careers that enable women to achieve economic self-sufficiency. NEW programs include a mix of hands-on shop skills, classroom instruction, physical fitness assessment, job development and placement services,…
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Teachout’s Teach Out
By Joshua Freeman This election season has seen an unusually open battle regarding political strategy among New York unionists and progressives. At stake is a crucial issue: how to balance the demands of building a movement that can fundamentally change a political and economic system that fails to serve most Americans against the existing political arrangements that benefit particular…
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Graduated, But Not Gone: Murphy Institute Alumni Network Meets
As the latest group of Murphy MA candidates prepared to graduate, a small group of alumni and alumni-to-be met to form a network. This first Murphy alumni meeting took place on May 19th at the Murphy Institute. With the help of Murphy staff members, the group of MA program and Union Semester students discussed the…
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Sub: The View from the Teaching Underclass
By Joshua Freeman Shortly after graduating college, when I thought we would seize state power in a couple months, or maybe a couple of years, I took a job as a substitute school teacher in Worcester, Massachusetts. Assigned to a junior high school — this was before the new-fangled middle school became the norm —…
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