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Direct linkMangan, Katherine – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2013
Bobby Curran grew up in a working-class neighborhood in Baltimore, finished high school, and followed his grandfather's steel-toed bootprints straight to Sparrows Point, a 3,000-acre sprawl of industry on the Chesapeake Bay. College was not part of the plan. A gritty but well-paying job at the RG Steel plant was Mr. Curran's ticket to a secure…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Older Workers, Structural Unemployment, Dislocated Workers
