90 Miles From Tyranny : Starbucks Holds Hiring Event for Refugees in San Diego, TB Rates Among Highest in Country

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Wednesday, August 9, 2017

Starbucks Holds Hiring Event for Refugees in San Diego, TB Rates Among Highest in Country

Starbucks held a hiring event exclusively for refugees in El Cajon, California on Tuesday, part of its recently announced commitment to hire more than 10,000 refugees over the next five years.

El Cajon is located in San Diego County, where more than 20,000 refugees have have been resettled by the federal government in the past nine and a half years since the beginning of Fiscal Year 2008.

A 2013 study from a research team led by Dr. Timothy Rodwell, “an associate professor and physician in the Division of Global Health at UCSD [University of California at San Diego]” that “analyzed data from LTBI [latent tuberculosis infection] screening results of 4,280 refugees resettled in San Diego County between January 2010 and October 2012,” noted that “San Diego County, in California, is a leading refugee resettlement site, and it...


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2 comments:

hiswiserangel said...

And this is why I brew my own covfefe.

Cederq said...

And another good reason not to drink their swill coffee...