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National | A progress report on Oklahoma City's TEEM ministry | Roy Maynard

They're standing in line for Judy Braddy's fried chicken, and she knows it.

When Ms. Braddy went to Oklahoma City's The Education and Employment Ministry (TEEM) last spring, she was quiet, fearful, and thoroughly discouraged. But the program, which seeks to move people off welfare and onto the employment rolls, seems to have had a profound effect on Ms. Braddy. TEEM itself hired her to manage its kitchen (the facility provides lunch for its clients, and Ms. Braddy is also responsible for a couple of larger luncheons each month).

"It's the job I've been looking for," says Ms. Braddy, a grandmother who had been out of the workforce and on welfare. "It's something I'm good at."

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