Tonight, the Buncombe County Commissioners received a report on poverty prevention and assistance programs in the county. Scott Rogers with ABCCM reported that veterans going through their program last year were placed in jobs earning at least $12/hr. The program looks at nine critical factors and teaches distinctions between the way lower-class and middle-class people think. In days gone by, job placement agencies would get a homeless person a job in a motel and hope they would work their way to management. Now, they’re placing program graduates as managers in the trucking industry earning $18-19/hr. Rogers said he hopes the program will soon be able to offer $36,000 to $60,000 jobs for starters.