Under a $1.17 million contract with the U.S. Department of Labor, Ford Motor Company made plans to hire and train 250 Detroit area men and women classified as the "hard-core unemployed." Hiring was to be done through the Michigan Employment Security Commission; the National Alliance of Businessmen was also involved through its JOBS (Job Opportunities in the Business Sector) program. The Project 250 program was designed to serve areas suffering from high unemployment in specific populations, like the Detroit Metropolitan area, and it targeted high school dropouts, the chronically unemployed, welfare recipients, the illiterate, parolees, and former Ford employees. Training programs ranged from four to fourteen weeks. Trainees were to be trained in drill press operation, stock handling, welding, and metal finishing and placed in Ford's Dearborn engine, assembly, frame, and stamping plants, or hired as salaried mail and office clerks.
From the description of Project 250 Employment Program records, 1968-1970 (bulk 1968) (The Henry Ford). WorldCat record id: 132706588
