Migrants getting support to enhance chances of getting job in Massachusetts
According to the Healey administration, in the last five months more than 3,500 new arrivals have been assisted with work authorizations, 626 living in shelters have found jobs, and over 1,000 are enrolled in language classes. After pressure on the Biden Administration work authorizations now take only months instead of years. It made all the difference for Doublenska Merina and Ledna Fermont who arrived in Massachusetts from Haiti last July, got their work papers by November and found jobs assisting developmentally disabled residents at Thrive Support Advocacy in Marlboro, which has recently hired 25 migrants.