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Sweet Beginnings workers and staff care for the job-creating bees.

 

   By Joshunda Sanders ~

 

- Some people see a bee and want to swat it. Brenda Palms-Barber sees a bee and thinks about products it helps to produce and jobs it creates.

 

Palms-Barber is executive director of the North Lawndale Employment Network (NLEN) in Chicago. The nonprofit organization partners with about 100 agencies to help low-income people, primarily former offenders, find and keep jobs.

 

In 2004, she launched Sw

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