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Kurt Sliker was laid off from his job as a truck driver in 2007, when the economic recession just started to take hold. He has been unemployed ever since, and has worked with jobs counselors for over a year to find employment without success. With as many as thousands of jobs expected to be created by the development in Center City Allentown, the 47-year-old city resident is exactly the kind of person members of a new jobs task force is hoping to help. "Seeing all these jobs being created, I just hope I can get back to work, that's all,' said Silker, who attended a modest city hall rally just before the inaugural meeting of the Allentown Neighborhood Improvement Zone Development Authority's jobs task force. Click here to read the article.
Kurt Sliker was laid off from his job as a truck driver in 2007, when the economic recession just started to take hold. He has been unemployed ever since, and has worked with jobs counselors for over a year to find employment without success.
With as many as thousands of jobs expected to be created by the development in Center City Allentown, the 47-year-old city resident is exactly the kind of person members of a new jobs task force is hoping to help.
"Seeing all these jobs being created, I just hope I can get back to work, that's all,' said Silker, who attended a modest city hall rally just before the inaugural meeting of the Allentown Neighborhood Improvement Zone Development Authority's jobs task force.
Click here to read the article.