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Article: Black Americans have yet to reap benefits of county's CWP

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March 25, 2004
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Black American contractors and those among the unemployed have found little more than another "field of dreams" in Miami Dade County's much-heralded Community Workforce Program.

The Community Workforce Program was created through a county ordinance in Jan. 2003. The initiative was sponsored by Commissioner Dorrin Rolle to address, unemployment among Black Americans and the existing racial disparity in awarding county contracts:

Much to the consternation of some, the CWP is not a panacea for Black Americans, quite the contrary. According to the ordinance, the CWP mandates that "hiring on projects should reflect a minimum of 10 percent of persons performing the construction trades work and ...

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