It's almost that time of the year where the whole family gathers at the table and shares meaningful conversations. November also marks Hospice and Palliative Care Awareness Month. During this time, experts are hoping to promote family conversations about hospice as a tool for living.

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With an unemployment rate of 3.7%, various industries have a tough time finding workers, especially skilled workers. Restaurants and other food services are hit particularly hard, where there is already a scramble to find enough workers to fill current openings and where the number of jobs is projected to grow 14 percent by 2028.But, a six year-old local organization is successfully working to close that gap. The Boston-basedNew England Center for Arts and Technology, orNECAT, provides chronically unemployed adults with professional culinary and life skills training and places them in kitchen jobs throughout Greater Boston.

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