Baseball Stadium Jobs

Artist"s Rendering DC baseball Stadium

A story in today's Washington's Post confirms what we reported first on Nine news now...that efforts to hire DC residents for 50 percent of the jobs at the new publicly funded baseball stadium have fallen short.

Nine News Now reported last week that roughly 35 percent of the jobs at the new stadium going up in Southeast had gone to city folk.

The Post story today put the figure at about 32 percent. The construction firms charged with hiring blame the city's poorly trained workforce...

It's going to be interesting to see if 50 percent of the jobs at the new Convention center Hotel construction site will go to DC residents. That's the agreement for the Marriott project that will get lots of government funding....the DC government has at least eight months to get people into training before construction begins.