Word: partnership
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Segall is now vice president for sales and partnership at WebCT, a company that develops Web-based educational material and was recently acquired by Universal Learning Technology...
...debate starts at the most basic level--there is no agreement on just how many people fall into each category. "When I started out, we talked about one-thirds," says Eli Segal, president of the Welfare to Work Partnership. "One-third would be easy to move off the rolls, one-third would be harder and one-third would be impossible." But that conventional wisdom has been abandoned now that states have begun cutting well into the bottom third of their rolls. Caseloads have dropped 69% in Mississippi in the past three years, 81% in Wisconsin and 84% in Wyoming...
...hard to define is that this roiling economy has thrown out the old rules about who can get hired. With the national unemployment rate at 4.3%--and at less than 3% in some states--businesses are dipping deeper into the labor pool than ever before. The Welfare to Work Partnership has been placing recovering drug addicts and alcohol abusers in private-sector jobs. Even job applicants with criminal records are getting hired. UPS, for one, has "relaxed" its practice of not hiring ex-cons, says Rodney Carroll, a UPS executive who serves as chief operating officer of the Welfare...
...response, Comey and his boss, U.S. Attorney Helen Fahey, launched Project Exile in partnership with Richmond police chief Jerry Oliver and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. The new procedure: anytime Richmond police found a gun on a drug dealer, user, convicted felon or suspect in a violent crime, the case would be tried under federal statutes that carry mandatory sentences of at least five years without parole--and longer for repeated or aggravated offenses...
...department of social services recruits clients, 90% of them single mothers; the church or association puts together a team to help with everything from resumes to fixing a broken toilet to lining up free dental care. No one knew how the chemistry would work--or that the public-private partnership would help yield something valuable, even beyond a 65% drop in state welfare rolls...