Baker had always intended to pass the GED. “I had the big, 1,000-page GED study guide,” he says. It just wasn’t doing the trick. “I’m the type of person,” he says, “who really has to see things [in ...

The largest barrier to employment for many new Somali residents of Lewiston and Auburn is a lack of English language skills, according to a new report by a Bates College research group. Somali ...