A report from Huffington Post: WASHINGTON — In a State of the Union speech focused tightly on jobs and the economy, President Barack Obama outlined his ideas for getting long-term unemployed workers back to work and closing the “skills gap” separating jobless Americans from employers who have positions to fill. In a speech setting his [...]
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A report from Z6Mag: Home » Business » Cyber Security Jobs & Training Are On The Rise Bucking Unemployment Trend While some reports propose that the unemployment situation is improving in the United States, for the most part, the US is in recession that is proving hard to beat. Unemployment numbers may be high because [...]
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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 Huffington Post: In June, Robert Annis lost his long-time job as a reporter at the Indianapolis Star when media conglomerate and Star owner Gannett cut 700 employees to save money. For the past few months, instead of writing about Hamilton County as he’d done for the previous nine years, Annis has been [...]
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A report from Access Washington: Collecting unemployment requires real job-search effort – May 31, 2011 11-032 Media contacts: Jamie Swift, unemployment-insurance communications, 360-902-0904Rick Van Cise, WorkSource communications, 360-902-9454 Audio: /newsandinformation/releases/audio/index.php OLYMPIA – Congrats on your wedding, but we’re going to need our money back. That was Employment Security’s response to a Washington woman who received [...]
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A report from Green Bay Press Gazette: Training grants Northeast Wisconsin Technical College is offering fully funded Workforce Advancement Training Grants to large and small companies.The grants are to train existing workers to upgrade their skills and productivity and to expand technical college training services. They are awarded competitively.Interested companies should contact NWTC by Friday. [...]
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A report from KTNV Las Vegas: Las Vegas, NV – The unemployment rate in Las Vegas dropped to its lowest point since 2009. The state Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation found that the jobless rate in Las Vegas dropped to 13.3 percent in March. That’s the third month in a row that it’s decreased. Las [...]
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A report from Sun-Sentinel: Marcia Heroux Pounds 12:00 a.m. EDT, March 28, 2011 Some state legislators have questioned the Florida’s Agency for Workforce Innovation’s verification of job search by unemployment benefit recipients. Floridians who qualify for unemployment benefits are not required to turn in their job-search activities to AWI either online or mail in a form, unless [...]
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