Stimulus funds are used for workforce training, business retention, and youth work experience

The Workforce Investment Board of San Bernardino County recently announced that of the $15.8 million in stimulus funding allocated by the federal government in February, approximately $11.7 million has been spent on local programs for workforce training, business retention and youth work experience, and $4.1 million is contracted to be spent on additional training programs during the next year.

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Hawaii stimulus: 182 contracts, $122M, 250 jobs

Pacific Business News
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Campaign promotes careers in advanced-technology fields

Augusta Free Press
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Pennsylvania job-training efforts lead nation

Central Penn Business Journal
The L&I initiatives are part of a larger job training effort that took on a new name, workforce development, and a new focus under the Rendell ...

Unemployed Get Boost From Workforce Investment Board

WFMZ-TV Online
But the Lehigh Valley Workforce Investment Board is upping the ante and using a portion of $2 million in federal stimulus money to pay for the rest of an ...

Eel River employers investing in area youth; making it happen with the StepUp ...

Humboldt Beacon
According to Sapper, the goal of StepUp is to invite employers to literally, STEP UP and provide jobs for youth and to match youth to appropriate job sites. ...

San Diego Workforce Partnership Stories

The San Diego Workforce Partnership is excited to feature real stories from people in San Diego who benefit from our work. The funding we receive from the Department of Labor gives us the opportunity to support a network of career centers countywide and run a summer youth employment program. - Rebecca Smith, Vice President, San Diego Workforce Partnership

Lehigh Valley Workforce Investment Board offering free community college

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Lehighvalleylive.com
... community college tuition through federal stimulus money given to the Lehigh Valley Workforce Investment Board Inc. With $2 million in stimulus money, ...

New High-Tech Entrepreneurship Program Launched for Life Sciences

UB News Center
... the Buffalo and Erie County Workforce Investment Board, Inc. Representatives from 12 life sciences companies are enrolled in the inaugural class. ...

New Initiative Attempts To Lower Unemployment Rates

WISN.com
Career Works has a new job training center in Bayshore Town Center. Businesses in tourism, retail and hospitality can post openings and requirements for ...

Milwaukee Area Workforce Investment Board unveils new CareerWorks program

FOX6Now.com Milwaukee
WITI-TV, MILWAUKEE - The Milwaukee Area Workforce Investment Board is launching a new "CareerWorks Program" to connect job seekers with businesses. ...

Report: More Than One Million 'Middle-Skill' Jobs Expected in Illinois by 2016 ...

Reuters
We must provide our state residents the opportunity to obtain some form of postsecondary education or job training," says Assistant Majority Leader David ...

Event: Green Economy Topic Of Green Market ExpositionTomorrow ...

By Christopher Zurcher
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New Biotechnology Website and Workforce Directory Unveiled to Support ...

Reuters
... directory to help boost employment in the life sciences industry and to promote the biotechnology industry as a potential career choice for students. ...

Economic stimulus summer youth program pays off in permanent jobs

KOAM-TV
The Workforce Investment board says more than 260 young adults had summer jobs, and at least 20 are still earning paychecks. John Fickbohm is one of them. ...

walter state tops list

Seymour Herald
The CWD also administered the $2.2 million summer youth jobs program in which 875 area youth were employed in local businesses and industries. ...

Stimulus Money Hard at Work

WYTV
... at the One-Stop Workforce Centers by 12-percent. Part of the stimulus money also helped more than 500 people find work through the Summer Youth Program.

Daniels expands youth conservation corps program

Chicago Tribune
The Young Hoosiers Conservation Corps has given jobs to nearly 1900 residents ages 16 to 24 since it was created this year using federal stimulus money. ...

Feds praise St. Louis County youth jobs initiative

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Some of the summer jobs, the county said in a statement, have led to full-time employment. As a result of the federal government's recognition, county human ...

Lois Kazakoff: A look at the Bay Area jobs future

San Francisco Chronicle
"The goal is to bring back well-paid blue-collar jobs," said Dorothy Chen, director of the Workforce Investment Board in Alameda County. ...

Microsoft to provide free training for unemployed Marylanders ...

By Stan Moore
Division of Workforce Development and Adult Learning. 6000 Vouchers – Microsoft E-Learning: to include Microsoft Worker (Windows XP, Office 2003 or Windows Vista & Office 2007); 1500 Vouchers – Microsoft E-Learning: IT Professional ...

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Beverly Perdue, developed by North Carolina community colleges and funded by federal stimulus dollars through the Division of Workforce Development in the N.C. Department of Commerce. The objective of JobsNOW is to quickly train workers ...

Mississippi Geospatial Cluster Continues Growth as Need for ...

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City, ISU continue to fund WeLead

West Liberty Index
Although Lathrop said WeLead is still in the early feasibility stages of working with the West Liberty School District and Iowa Workforce Development, ...

Celebrating Workforce Development

WTOK
Meridian Community College hosted an open house and ribboncutting for its Workforce Development Center Wednesday. Officials say the training offered here ...

Federal Stimulus Money Used To Reeducate Unemployed

NewsChannel5.com
The Department of Labor and Workforce Development hope the funds will serve to also re-energize the local economy. For more than a year, Torji Smith has ...

Grants help youths learn job skills

Poughkeepsie Journal
The Dutchess County Workforce Investment Board worked with several community agencies to administer these programs. Workforce Investment Boards distribute ...

Federal money buys about 700 ND jobs so far

Forbes
North Dakota's Department of Commerce reported that $25.3 million in federal weatherization assistance money can be credited with 30 jobs. ...

Workforce Solutions broadening service points across Treasure Coast

Stuart News (subscription)
“We're attempting to increase the number of access points for job seekers with the high unemployment we have,” Workforce Solutions President and Chief ...

Stimulus funds help students learn skills

Attleboro Sun Chronicle - Attleboro,MA,USA
... North Attleboro and Norton who participated in the federal- and state-funded program financed through the Bristol County Workforce Development Board. ...

Minn. Chalks Up Nearly 12000 Jobs To Stimulus

WCCO
—$16.6 million provided the equivalent of 1335 full-time positions in youth summer employment and support jobs from May through September. ...

630 summer jobs created

Pacific Coast Business Times
A $1.75 million federal stimulus program created 630 jobs for young people over the summer, the Workforce Investment Board of Ventura County said in a ...

Community College gets $750000 grant for job training

Pittsburgh Post Gazette
CCAC will recruit students through regional employers, The Pittsburgh Hispanic Center, Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board, careerlink and the CCAC ...

County gets $1.6 million for green jobs training

Times-Standard
The Humboldt County Workforce Investment Board has been awarded $1.6 million for green jobs training in Humboldt and Del Norte counties. ...

Stimulus jobs program helps teens, young adults

Daytona Beach News-Journal
Christine Sikora, youth services coordinator for the Center for Business Excellence, said 350 youths in Volusia and Flagler counties got jobs this summer ...

Federal stimulus paying for local jobs and job training

KOLD-TV
The county will spend nearly a quarter of its money training about 1500 jobless people. Jim Mize is with Pima County Employer Outreach. ...

Canton stimulus program to train workers for environmental cleanup

Canton Repository
Canton and about 100 other communities and nonprofit agencies applied for more than $6.8 million allotted for the job-training grants. ...

Guest's view: Youth employment program transforms lives

Utica Observer Dispatch
By DAVID MATHIS Transformation is at the core of everything we at the Oneida County Office of Workforce Development do with the youth who work in our Summer ...

Job-seeking success stories celebrated in Vineland

Vineland Daily Journal
The One-Stop Career Centers are programs of the Cumberland and Salem Workforce Investment Board, whose origins date to 1989 when it was known as the Private ...

Chamber seeks jobs for disabled

Danbury News Times
He added that the Northwest Regional Workforce Investment Board will provide partial wage and training reimbursement to employers for qualified job seekers ...

12 St. Lucie organizations named 'Best Places to Work' for 2009

Vero Beach Press-Journal (subscription) - Vero Beach,FL,USA
... to Work in 2009 by the St. Lucie County Human Resource Association and Workforce Solutions, formerly Workforce Development Board of the Treasure Coast. ...

Work force development center hits 10-year mark

Watertown Daily Times - Watertown,WI,USA
Near the close of formal remarks, Pat Schramm, the executive director and CEO of the Workforce Development Board of South Central Wisconsin, ...

Worker retraining gets multimillion-dollar boost

Michigan Business Review - MLive.com - Ann Arbor,MI,USA
Levin met with the Muskegon/Oceana Workforce Development Board, which advises the Muskegon County Department of Employment and Training. ...

New green jobs center for youth opens in Austin

Austin American-Statesman
By Asher Price | Monday, September 28, 2009, 05:24 PM The South Austin facility, which houses a charter school for at-risk youth, has already gone through ...

More than 500 Union County youths benefit from Summer Jobs Program

Scarlet Scuttlebutt
The two programs include the Summer Youth Employment Program and Help Employ Area Teens. Together, they are designed to improve long-term career prospects ...

Federal stimulus money boosts job training efforts in KC

Kansas City Star
But if there's one place the stimulus money's impact is seen, it's in the job-training sector. Through the spring and summer, local organizations like the ...

New skills for jobless funded by stimulus

Arizona Republic
They sat down with the Center for Workforce Development to create ways to provide more extensive and focused career training. In the past, the groups have ...

Trainees graduate from green jobs program

Columbia Daily Herald
The eight trainees, who range in age from 19 to 24, were selected from a pool of young people who were participants in the Hire Youth! Summer Jobs Program. ...