In a big industrial-looking building south of Baltimore, signs that an unusual graduation ceremony was about to take place were laid out on a table:
For each of the four graduates, there was a brown canvas tool belt, hardhat, hammer, level, tape measure and other tools of their new trade: carpentry.
Three men and one woman from Baltimore had just completed a pre-apprenticeship program entitling them to enter one of the Northeast Regional Council of Carpenters’ four-year apprenticeship programs.
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