Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Missouri receives $1.28 million on-the-job training grant

Springfield Business Journal
The grant will make it possible for workers to receive on-the-job training, allowing them to jointly receive wages and acquire training, according to a ...

Arundel gets $4.9 million cyber security training grant

Baltimore Sun (blog)
The Anne Arundel Workforce Development Corporation, Anne Arundel Community College and the Pathways to Cyber Security Careers Consortium initiative will ...

Funding comes through for St. Louis youth summer jobs

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Well over a week after the official start of summer, word came Wednesday of a long-anticipated program to keep young people occupied, and employed, ...

Thursday, July 1, 2010

Workforce Solutions nabs $2.8M grant

Dallas Business Journal
The U.S. Department of Labor's Community-Based Job Training Initiative has awarded a $2.8 million grant to Workforce Solutions for North Central Texas to ...

El Paso Tool Helps Oil Spill Victims In Louisiana

KFOX El Paso
Barraza, an employee at Workforce Solutions Upper Rio Grande, calls it an office on wheels. “They can check their e-mails, they can check on their status on ...

City Announces Another Expansion of Summer Youth Employment Program

Young people between the ages of 14 and 18 are eligible for summer youth jobs. Over 1000 City teens applied for the positions over the past few months. ...

Students go to work this summer

C&G Newspapers
The Michigan Works Summer Youth Program, an extension of the Michigan Works In-School Program, helped 45 students find summer employment this year. ...