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Project Seeks to Aid Baltimore’s Black Middle Class

Ten years ago, Thomas Young, was languishing in a dead-end job manufacturing glass bottles at a factory here. “It was almost like I was a slave,” says Mr. Young, now 36, of his position as a machine operator. “I had no skills, so I was stuck.” He had dropped out of college and accepted the $36,000…