Monday, November 29, 2010

Goodwill thrives at San Francisco thrift store (AP)

In this Nov. 26, 2010 photo, a sales associate who goes by the name Mia TuMutch, right, and assistant manager Alexie Scanlon greet customers at the Castro Goodwill in San Francisco. Seven of the shop's nine employees are transgender, most of them women who used to be men. They were referred to Goodwill by the Transgender Economic Empowerment Initiative, a nonprofit training and employment service that also places workers with Macy's, Trader Joe's, Bank of America and other supportive companies. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)AP - Before Goodwill Industries opened its newest retail outlet here, no one would have argued that San Francisco had a shortage of thrift stores for its avid recyclers and trendy hipsters. What the city did lack was enough jobs for its transgender population, a group with an unemployment rate thought to be twice the California average.


Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/economy/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101128/ap_on_re_us/us_transgender_goodwill

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