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I saw an interesting panel this morning on the Seattle public access TV channel. THE guy who is CEO of Ivar's. a small local seafood chain participated in a panel on Seattle's latest must have do-good project, stamping out income inequality.
He has several tried and true demands- higher minimum wages, higher overall wages, more cheap housing (how are we supposed to do this, kick out people who can pay their way and put in their places people who cannot?), etc. But the interesting part was that he also hoped for some changes in education. Ivar's is famous for treating its workers very well, and trying to give them a leg up in life. HE mentioned that among the ca 11 public and 11 private high schools in Seattle, there is precisely one shop class being offered. And this sounded like a very successful program. It's at Rainier Beach High School, a public high school in one of the poorer and more crime ridden districts in South Seattle. Those of you who ride the link train from downtown to SEA know it as a rundown looking flat area, I think the last stop before Tukwila and the airport. This program teaches numerical control machines and various necessary modern industrial skills. Apparently, all the graduates get good high paying local jobs right on graduation.
Ivar's guy then talked about another program where homeless people are taught to work in the banking industry. He mentioned tellers, several other banking jobs, and then "high net worth customer counselors". Graduates of this program apparently are also very successfully placed.
Yikes!
Ha
He has several tried and true demands- higher minimum wages, higher overall wages, more cheap housing (how are we supposed to do this, kick out people who can pay their way and put in their places people who cannot?), etc. But the interesting part was that he also hoped for some changes in education. Ivar's is famous for treating its workers very well, and trying to give them a leg up in life. HE mentioned that among the ca 11 public and 11 private high schools in Seattle, there is precisely one shop class being offered. And this sounded like a very successful program. It's at Rainier Beach High School, a public high school in one of the poorer and more crime ridden districts in South Seattle. Those of you who ride the link train from downtown to SEA know it as a rundown looking flat area, I think the last stop before Tukwila and the airport. This program teaches numerical control machines and various necessary modern industrial skills. Apparently, all the graduates get good high paying local jobs right on graduation.
Ivar's guy then talked about another program where homeless people are taught to work in the banking industry. He mentioned tellers, several other banking jobs, and then "high net worth customer counselors". Graduates of this program apparently are also very successfully placed.
Yikes!
Ha
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