A report from PBS NewsHour: GWEN IFILL: Now, a state jobs program attracting national attention. As we heard earlier, the president’s jobs bill was blocked in the Senate, and Democrats are hoping to pass individual parts of the legislation instead. One provision with bipartisan support is modeled on a job training program in Georgia. NewsHour [...]
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A report from Hr Morning: President Obama just sent his new jobs bill to Congress, and it’s asking lawmakers to adopt the Georgia Works unemployment benefits model. Under Georgia Works, jobless individuals collect unemployment benefits in exchange for participating in a job training program. Basically, instead of handing the unemployed a check, the money goes [...]
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A report from Hot Air: Last night, Barack Obama urged Congress to “pass this jobs bill” quickly more than a dozen times in his speech to the joint session of Congress, because America couldn’t wait for the legislators to debate the merits of his proposal. Perhaps we can’t afford not to debate them, as Reuters [...]
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A report from The Associated Press: Georgia jobs program gets bipartisan boost By ERRIN HAINES, Associated Press – 19 hours ago ATLANTA (AP) — With bipartisan buy-in and no big price tag, a Georgia program pairing job seekers with potential employers for on-the-job training is gaining momentum as President Barack Obama crafts a plan to [...]
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A report from Washington Post: Georgia jobs program that has intrigued Obama has flaws By John Gramlich, As he prepares to announce a new set of job-creation proposals this week, President Obama is looking closely at a Georgia program that has found a rare sweet spot in the hyperpartisan world of Washington politics: It is [...]
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A report from Sacramento Bee: WASHINGTON – As he prepares to announce a new set of job-creation proposals this week, President Barack Obama is looking closely at a Georgia program that has found a rare sweet spot in the hyper-partisan world of Washington politics: It is popular with Republicans as well as Democrats, and it [...]
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A report from NPR: [4 min 49 sec] Download Joe Raedle/Getty Images During his three-day bus tour, President Obama discussed job creation. At one town hall, he mentioned a training program in Georgia that allows companies to train prospective employees temporarily while they still receive an unemployment check. President Obama is scheduled next week to [...]
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A report from CNN: Georgia Works participants, like Alecia Blakely, have landed jobs after going through the training program. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Instead of collecting a check while looking for work, Georgia has a program to give the unemployed on-the-job training. It has caught the eye of President Obama. The Georgia Works program allows [...]
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A report from Huffington Post: The Georgia Department of Labor has said that within three months of participating in a voluntary job training program, nearly two-thirds of trainees found work. The program has been copied by other states, and the White House has indicated it is considering something similar as part of a forthcoming jobs [...]
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