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(Afro) — At-large Councilmember Michael Brown, chairman of the Committee on Housing and Workforce Development, has provided a report to his Council peers that details system-wide problems related to the District’s high rate of unemployment. According to Brown, who presented the “Special Report on the State of the District’s Workforce Programs,” various problems related to […]
(AP) — Gov. Pat Quinn says he is pulling the plug on the Put Illinois to Work temporary jobs program, even though it was a centerpiece of his election campaign earlier this fall. Quinn said Monday he will allow Put Illinois to Work to die in mid-January. The program’s initial $215 million in federal funding ran […]
(Washington Post) — Keeping a mayoral campaign promise to hold a job-creation summit, Mayor-elect Vincent C. Gray assembled about 50 company chiefs, entrepreneurs and college presidents to discuss how to tackle one of the Ditrict’s most frightening statistics: an unemployment rate as high as 30 percent in Ward 8. Employers repeatedly brought up obstacles – […]
(Washington Post) — It’s a Monday morning and Rodney Brown’s 28 students shuffle into a lime-colored room at the Department of Employment Services on H Street NE. Several arrive late. Many wear clothes made for lounging, not impressing. “I see some of you wearing tennis shoes,” says Brown, his 6-foot frame tidy in gray slacks and […]
Hard for community colleges to keep up with demand in this economy.
(Chicago Sun Times) — The 13 men in the concrete classroom in Division 3 of the Cook County Jail never imagined they’d end up trading their military uniforms for the beige scrubs that mark each of them as an inmate. The men — once proud soldiers , several who served in combat units — know […]
(New York Times) — TALK to a displaced worker who has just finished a retraining program, and chances are you’re talking to someone who still doesn’t have a job. Lured by promises of seamless re-employment in glamorous careers, many of America’s 14.8 million unemployed have enrolled in expensive adult retraining programs, only to graduate with […]
(NYT) — Buzzing with excitement, 72 11th graders sat in the auditorium ofAustin Polytechnical Academy recently, waiting to board buses that would take them to the International Manufacturing Technology Show at McCormick Place, the largest show of its kind in the United States. Carrying clipboards and dressed sharply in khakis and red polo shirts, they […]
"The goal is to encourage community colleges and other training providers to work in close partnership with employers, to design a curriculum where they want to hire the people coming out of these programs."
(AJC) — All jobless Georgians are now eligible for a Labor Department training program that matches the unemployed with possible employers. But there’s a hitch: you won’t make any money. As the Georgia Works program now stands, anybody who receives unemployment insurance can train for a private or public-sector job while continuing to receive unemployment […]
(AJC) — Good idea or bad? The Georgia Department of Labor is expanding its Georgia Works training program to include people who are not receiving unemployment insurance. Up to now, the program has allowed those getting unemployment benefits to receive six weeks of on-the-job training from a participating employer. The employer gets to train and […]