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Ford Motor Invests In Detroit Youth

December 19, 2012
----------------- The Ford Motor Company is making a major investment in facilities and programs to help youth in Detroit. The company’s community service arm is turning the mostly empty Mexicantown Mercado building into a youth center that will offer education, cultural events and job training programs. The company is also funding similar programs at a second facility. WDET’s Quinn Klinefelter was at the announcement of the effort and talked about it with WDET’s Travis Wright…