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Working up from the streets
Rev. Greg Boyle
November 2, 2007
Rev. Greg Boyle is the founder of Los Angeles-based Homeboy Industries, an organization that gives jobs to young men and women who agree to give up the gang life. They make T-shirts and tacos, do maintenance and landscaping work, and in the process Boyle says they find a sense of self-worth. Rev. Boyle described his mission to "plan futures, not funerals" in an Oct. 25 speech in Minneapolis.

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