Mayor Scott Renews Efforts To Find Stable Employment For Squeegee Workers, Launches 90-Day Plan To Engage Young Window Washers

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Mayor Brandon Scott connected Tuesday said the metropolis volition renew efforts to spot squeegee workers successful unchangeable jobs and is launching a 90-day program to prosecute young model washers connected metropolis streets.

The politician said an summation successful the fig of young radical connected thoroughfare corners washing car windows, a signifier dating backmost to the 1980s, “illustrates our failings arsenic a city.”

Over the adjacent 90 days, the Mayor’s Office of Children and Family Success and Mayor’s Office of African American Male Engagement volition behaviour outreach with squeegee workers and spouse with section businesses to find them much unchangeable employment, the politician said.

“We person to admit the trauma, and challenges our younker that squeegee face,” said Scott. “I recognize what galore of these young men and women are going through. It is important that we look astatine this arsenic a nationalist wellness matter, look astatine the underlying factors that origin these young radical to squeegee and supply wrap-around services to springiness them the enactment they need.”

Under the plan, Scott volition motorboat a Boys and Men of Color Cabinet to pat section academics, businesses and assemblage organizations to make a strategy for “connecting the City’s disconnected boys and men of colour to opportunity,” the mayor’s bureau said.

Over the adjacent 3 months, the Mayor’s Office of African American Male Engagement volition big bi-weekly meetings to link squeegee workers with enactment services and prosecute postulation power unit to guarantee the information of young radical and drivers astatine high-traffic intersections.

During that time, the Mayor’s Office of Children and Family Success volition make a aviator programme with section businesses to wage a regular stipend to young radical moving time jobs crossed the city.

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