Yale University has some good news for New Haven residents in search of work. The Ivy league college plans to hire hundreds of city residents.
In a letter to city officials, Yale makes a commitment to hire 500 city residents over the next two years, "to build an even stronger New Haven."
One hundred of them would be for construction workers, if the unions permit.
Yale hopes the unions would train 100 New Haven residents so they could work at Yale.
New Haven County's latest unemployment rate is 5.8 percent.
