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Dana Dorsey is the Job Training Manager at Memphis Bioworks Foundation

Building a green jobs workforce

Last month the first graduation of Memphis Clean and Green Job Training celebrated more than 20 unemployed or under-employed Memphians who received training and certification through an EPA-funded program at Memphis Bioworks Foundation. The free program is creatively filling a workforce gap, converting the unemployed into a skilled green labor force.  

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