HOW TO HELPMen interested in organizing a job training program may call Kenneth Simpson at 355-3021.
Some Chattanooga men are organizing a job training program to put unemployed men – including those with felony records – to work regardless of the obstacles they have to overcome.
“I want to quit throwing my arms up and do something,” said District 2 City Councilman Jerry Mitchell.
Nearly half of black males ages 16 to 64 in Alton Park — 47.8 percent — are unemployed, while 33 percent in East Chattanooga are without jobs.
Mitchell is one of more than two dozen men including pastors, retired teachers and business leaders in the group. They have been meeting monthly and sometimes twice a month since January, planning how they will help men who lack job skills and men who have felony records find work.