A report from WKBW-TV: Cuomo Announces $ 10.3 Million Grant to Help Unemployed New Yorkers Accelerate Job Searches May 10, 2012 Updated May 10, 2012 at 12:05 PM EDT (WKBW release) New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo on Thursday announced that New York State has received $ 10.3 million from the U.S. Department of Labor as [...]
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A report from Sun-Sentinel: Tens of thousands of unemployed South Floridians are being told to show up at local employment offices for training and job counseling, or face losing their unemployment checks. As many as 30,000 Broward County and 19,000 Palm Beach County residents who are on federal emergency unemployment benefits will be expected to [...]
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A report from Toronto Star: Richard Botcher would love to leave welfare and return to work, but there are few training supports for disabled people in Ontario. RICK MADONIK/TORONTO STAR FILE PHOTO Laurie Monsebraaten Social Justice Reporter If the best route out of poverty is a job, a commission studying Ontario’s welfare system thinks the [...]
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A report from Yorkdispatch.com: HARTFORD, Conn. — Few job seekers who fail to get an interview know the reason, but Michelle Chesney-Offutt said a recruiter told her why she lost the chance to pitch for an information technology position. The 54-year-old, who had been laid off from her IT job in Illinois, said the recruiter [...]
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A report from Central Valley Business Times: Training program for unemployed workers for High-Speed Rail jobs proposed SACRAMENTOJanuary 19, 2012 11:50am • Would also recruit jobless veterans • ‘Will create new pathways to good-paying high-speed rail construction jobs’ Legislation setting up a special program to train the unemployed for jobs building the California High-Speed Rail [...]
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A report from newjerseynewsroom.com: Qualified New Jerseyans can receive up to $ 5,000 Workers laid off from the pharmaceutical industry in New Jersey may take advantage of federal funding issued to the state for re-training and new job opportunities, the state Department of Labor and Workforce Development announced Friday. As part of an effort to [...]
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A report from DigitalJournal.com: Denver – Due to rocky fiscal times in recent years, many areas have experienced the ripple effects of a downturned economy. One of the hardest hit areas has been the job market. Unemployment levels in the U.S., despite a slight decline from last year, remain a high level in 2011. August [...]
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A report from Knoxville News Sentinel: Coping in the Recession Today: Demographic of the unemployed changes as thousands look for long-term work. Sept. 19: A couple shares their decline into homelessness. Sept. 26:People pursue every option in order to feed their families. Oct. 3:Lack of health insurance plagues thousands; Learn ins and outs of COBRA, [...]
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A report from The Atlantic: We know their numbers. Roughly 25 million Americans, equal to the entire population of Texas, are unemployed, forced to work part-time, or have dropped out of the labor force entirely. But we don’t all know their stories. So the Atlantic asked our readers to share with us the one thing [...]
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A report from The Seattle Times: At age 46, with three grown kids and nearly three decades in sales behind him, Chris Mugler of Auburn is two places he thought he’d never be: unemployed and back in school. Four days a week, Mugler is sweating through college math, one of the prerequisites for the computer-networking [...]
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