Now, I’m not going to do what you think I’m going to do, and FLIP OUT …
So, I’ll let the story speak for how crazy it is that incentives are being used to compete for national tax-payer funding while people at home worry about whether the work-force covered by the incentives and the potential federal funding will be diverse enough.
DURHAM — Durham County is giving $1 million in economic development funds to a local information technology company to help it better compete for a contract to provide data center services to the federal government.
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However, local activist Victoria Peterson questioned whether the company will hire local workers, especially minorities.
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“How many African-Americans do they already have employed?” Petersen asked. “How many Latinos? How many women? We are doing our community a terrible disservice when we don’t monitor and make sure of who they are hiring.”
