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Mohamed Ahmed s dream of being a construction manager in America was stalled on arrival. The native of Sudan had the desire, but not the contacts in Iowa. And he was constantly running into hurdles caused by cultural differences. For example: The difference between a comma and a period when looking at numbers. In Sudan, if you add one to one-half, a mathematician might record it as  1,5. In the United States, where the 25-year-old Ahmed has lived since November 2016, that s  1.5. In my home country, we study math differently, Ahmed said.  This is where people like Paul Iversen can help. Iversen is an educator at the University of Iowa Labor Center, which sponsors a pre-apprenticeship program. The goal is to get more women and minorities such as Ahmed employed in the trade professions.

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