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What price hope?
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Homeboy Industries is hurting; it's time for L.A., rich and poor, to step up and help.
Tim Rutten
May 15 2010
Does Los Angeles have a conscience?
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L.A.'s Homeboy Industries lays off most employees
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The institution dedicated to helping gang members quit lives of crime has been unable to raise the $5 million it needs. A quarter of the staff will remain.
By Hector Becerra, Los Angeles Times
May 14 2010
Homeboy Industries, the Los Angeles institution whose mission for more than 20 years has been to turn jobs into a recipe for saving the lives of gang members, laid off most of its employees Thursday because of crushing financial problems.
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