Monday, November 9, 2009

Federal training funds reach 22000 Hawaii workers

Pacific Business News
Approximately 22000 Hawaii workers have benefited from federally funded work-force development initiatives in the past year, according to state officials. ...

Tammerling Drummond: Putting low-income youth to work a good use of federal funds

San Jose Mercury News
Fortunately, she qualified for Oakland's summer jobs program — a federally funded employment program designed to help low-income youth, ages 14 to 24 find ...

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Legislators plan meetings on job-training needs

Dubuque Telegraph Herald
The legislators will host members of a job-training needs study committee, co-chaired by state Rep. Wayne Ford, of Des Moines, and state Sen. ...

MCTC helping students in the workforce learn

MU The Parthenon
Through the Workforce Development Institute, workers can earn up to 29 college credits for the training received through their employers. ...

Monday, November 2, 2009

New WIB Member Blog

First day as a WIB member blog by Chris Hooks.

Summer youth program aids economy, brings jobs

Bartlesville Examiner Enterprise
Eligible youth for the Summer Youth Employment program were ages 14-24 and met income guidelines outlined by the act. Locally the program provided ...

City gets creative with arts plan

The Brown Daily Herald
She pointed to a summer youth employment program as one initiative in which the department was able to quickly and effectively carry out the mayor's ...

Stimulus funds created thousands of youth “recovery” jobs

Access Washington
Through the youth-employment program, she landed her first summer job, as a Head Start teacher's assistant. The program not only paid her wages, ...

Report: 2300 Nebraska jobs saved, created by stimulus funds

Lincoln Journal Star
About $3.9 million in stimulus money paid for a statewide summer youth program, creating about 268 jobs, according to the report. ...

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

Fontana Herald-News
About $7.1 million in stimulus funding was assigned to the Summer Youth Employment Program, which placed 1834 youth, ages 14 to 24, in jobs this summer. ...