Friday, July 30, 2010

NJ Labor Commissioner Visits South Jersey Business to Tout Success of ...

Citybizlist (press release)
The program is a partnership between the state's Department of Labor and Workforce Development, the New Jersey Business & Industry Association (NJBIA), ...

L.A. County Workforce Board Celebrates Ten-Year Mark

PR Newswire (press release)
The WIB administers the distribution of Federal Workforce Investment Act (WIA) funds to implement local workforce development programs and services to ...

Minnesota State Energy Sector Partnership Awards 14 Green Training Grants

Coon Rapids ECM Publishers
The energy sector partnership is an initiative of the Governor's Workforce Development Council, a 31-member body that analyzes and recommends workforce ...

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Goodwill resource center growing

GoDanRiver.com
... Security Commission and the Northwest Piedmont Workforce Development Board determined there was a need in the community for job training and outreach. ...

Summer Youth Employment Program gives hope to impoverished teens

Santa Cruz Sentinel
By Sarah Rolen The Summer Youth Employment Program, which began last summer, is helping low-income county youth prepare for the working world. ...

College will be regional hub for gas job training

Williamsport Sun-Gazette
... of Labor of the work Penn College has done in the past serves as a good basis to expand and standardize (job training) for the industry," he said. ...

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Workforce Florida Awards More Than $4 Million in Technology Grants ...

Workforce Florida Inc. is the statewide workforce investment board led by business and government leaders and charged with policy-setting and oversight of ...

Jobs program teaches teens, life, work skills

Sonoma Index-Tribune
The teens started their jobs on June 21 and make $8 an hour, for the eight-week program. The water agency started the program last year after receiving ...

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Ashland area group helping people get job retraining

BusinessNorth.com
The Northwest Wisconsin Workforce Investment Board is spending $386000 on advanced manufacturing training for 217 people throughout northwestern Wisconsin. ...

Anne Arundel Workforce Corp. awarded grant for cyber security training

ABC2 News
The Anne Arundel county Workforce Development Corporation, a consortium of academic, industry, and government partners, was awarded a grant to help train...