‘A little bit of blood’: Mississippi tech company settles welfare scandal suit

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‘A little bit of blood’: Mississippi tech company settles welfare scandal suit

Ricky Junco was working a low-wage, e-commerce job at Goodwill and volunteering to teach Microsoft Word to kids at a youth detention center in 2018 when he met Vince Jordan, founder of a local tech startup. Junco had been looking for ways to strengthen his skills to secure better employment. And Jordan had the solution: a virtual reality programming academy offered by his company, Lobaki. Junco said he was reluctant at first, doubting he’d be ab…