Wall Street Journal (07/13/15) Julie Jargon
In an endeavor led by coffee giant Starbucks Corp., over a dozen companies —including Microsoft Corp., CVS Health Corp., and Wal-Mart Stores Inc.—have teamed up to increase the hiring of young minority workers by 2018. The companies have pledged to hire 100,000, mostly low-income, 16-to-24-year-olds as interns, apprentices, and part-time and full-time employees in the next three years.