Welcome to the Reader‘s morning briefing for Wednesday, January 4, 2016.
Eli’s Cheesecake has been hiring war refugees for years
Refugees from Iraq, Congo, and many other war-torn countries make up about 15 percent of the employees at Eli’s Cheesecake. “People who come as refugees have great skills,” Marc Schulman, the president of Chicago’s most famous cheesecake company, told NPR. “These are great performers, great people.” Hiring refugees who have resettled in Chicago is not a new practice for Eli’s. “I’ve been here at Eli’s for the past 22 years,” purchasing manager Elias Kasongo, a refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo who has been working at Eli’s since 1994, told NPR. “It’s my home; it’s a beautiful thing.” [NPR]
