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Shoemaker Pingree Detroit employs vets to make the first sneakers manufactured in the Motor City

In the fall of 2014, Jarret Schlaff, president and co-founder of shoe company Pingree Detroit, stumbled upon two struggling veterans in Detroit. “In the same week, back-to-back, I found veterans that wanted to work but couldn’t find work,” he says. The first man he encountered was Ryan, a homeless veteran squatting near Schlaff’s Detroit home […]

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