City of Trees
Be Encouraged • 1h 16m
At the height of the recession, Washington Parks & People tries to reduce poverty and violence in neighborhoods by improving Washington D.C.'s parks. City of Trees follows three trainees and the directors of a stimulus-funded green job training program designed to put unemployed people back to work by caring for these parks.
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