In 1984, a group of ten gathered in a 100-square foot basement office of an East Harlem-based housing project. This was the first class of STRIVE, a new take on job training and placement that focused not just on getting the chronically unemployed into jobs, but keeping them there.
Jay Horne — If you want to be talked down to and treated like an inmate then strive is your place. The class i was in was a class of