Airlines are gearing up for their next big hiring need: airplane mechanics. And to meet that need, some are bringing new job training programs to Chicago. Changing plane technology, a wave of pandemic ...

Fast food jobs are much in the news today, in relation to California's new Fast Food law and U.S. Department of Labor current mantras on "quality jobs". In my early years in the community job training ...

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, ComEd and a coalition of community and corporate partners celebrated a new class of 73 graduates from ComEd job training programs, CONSTRUCT Infrastructure Academy and ...

This story reflects the views of this author, but not necessarily the editorial position of Fast Company. I’ve been studying job training programs for decades–ranging from efforts led by community ...

A few years ago, Sheila Ortega was scrubbing floors at a local grocery store, a high-school dropout with no clear path out of poverty. Today Ms. Ortega, 23, has four certificates in manufacturing ...

The failure to revise and integrate federal employment and job-training programs over a five-decade history has resulted in a policy and bureaucratic maze that creates challenges for program ...

Democrats and Republicans may not agree on much, but they do agree that American workers need help closing the "skills gap." That would be the vast gulf separating available, middle-class jobs from ...

Last Nov. 8, while millions of Americans flocked to the polls, the U.S. Labor Department slyly released an embarrassing report. The “Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Gold Standard Evaluation,” completed ...

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Last Nov. 8, while millions of Americans flocked to the polls, the U.S. Labor Department slyly released an embarrassing report. The “Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Gold Standard Evaluation,” completed ...

Thanks to additional funding by the Texas legislature, career and technical educational opportunities are expanding in public ...

In the olden days, the mission of Goodwill was to offer job and training opportunities primarily to people with disabilities. But over the years that mission has expanded to focus on providing job ...