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    :: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 ::

    Money troubles plague job-training center By PHIL FAIRBANKS
    No one disputes the initial success of Buffalo's minority construction-job training center. More than 200 have graduated in two years, half of them now working as carpenters, painters and electricians.

    So why is the training facility, the centerpiece of an effort to create a new generation of minority construction workers, at risk of closing?
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