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Video: Looking for Labor in Unlikely Places

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The red and white stripes on the Ozinga Bros mix trucks are a common sight in the Chicago and Milwaukee areas, and now the company is using their familiar colors as a visual cue for their new "Trade Up: Join the Stripes" campaign to attract more workers to a career in the construction industry.

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REAL ESTATE ARTIST: Theaster Gates works to revitalize African-American neighborhoods

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Theaster Gates is an award-winning artist whose installations, sculptures, and performance works have been exhibited at the Whitney Biennial, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Seattle Art Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and the Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, Ore.