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Old 02-05-2018, 10:11 AM
 
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"A coalition of more than 50 U.S. companies including FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX), Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT), Starbucks Corp. (Nasdaq: SBUX) and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) have a new goal of employing thousands of youth in Atlanta.

The 100,000 Opportunities Initiative will host a job and resource fair on May 3 at the Georgia World Congress Center. The fair will kick off a long-term effort with more than 75 other regional stakeholders, including the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation, The Center for Working Families, City of Atlanta, Georgia Department of Economic Development, Metro Atlanta eXchange for Workforce Solutions, Rockefeller Foundation, Schultz Family Foundation and United Way, plus Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and Governor Nathan Deal’s administrations to help create economic opportunities for an estimated 110,000 young people ages 16-24 who are not in school or employed.

Since launching in 2015, the national initiative has helped more than 175,000 youth find jobs in Chicago, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Seattle, Dallas and Washington DC, with the goal of hiring one million by 2021.

The number of job offers made as a result of the fair vary city-to-city. The last fair in Washington D.C. resulted in more than 1,000 on-the-spot job offers. In Dallas, more than 700 immediate offers were made..."

SOURCE/FULL STORY: https://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/...thousands.html
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