Homeless employees work at the Empowerment Plan for an average of two years before moving on to new careers. Like many colleagues at the Empowerment Plan , she was a victim of domestic violence. The other 40% is spent in classes designed to ensure they stay self-sufficient after they graduate from the Empowerment Plan. Now at the Empowerment Plan, she's learning life skills that she might have never learned -- like how to budget her income. But her level of success wouldn't have been possible without the Empowerment Plan, she said.

Source: CNN January 21, 2020 11:26 UTC