Mt. Pleasant nonprofit to fight poverty by helping the poor get and keep jobs

By Paul Zoeller, The Post and Courier

In November, as South Carolina’s unemployment rate remained stubbornly high, Mark Mason decided to leave Columbia with his wife, Cora, and move to Charleston.

He had a month’s unemployment left and figured Charleston’s booming economy offered him better odds to land a good job, something he had been unable to do in the two years since the mechanic and machine operator was laid off by a Columbia communications company.

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