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NPR Story
9:03 am
Fri May 11, 2012

St. Louis sewer district under fire from minority advocacy groups

Originally published on Thu May 10, 2012 6:16 pm

The minority business advocacy group MOKAN says the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District is not doing enough to include local minority and female workers in its sewer upgrade projects.

MOKAN executive director Yaphett El-Amin says her group wants MSD to increase the transparency of its hiring practices and invest at least $23.5 million in worker training programs.

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