Omaha jobs program attracting the national limelight, By Steve Jordan, July 10, 2009, Omaha World-Herald: “An Omaha effort to break people out of poverty is attracting national attention because the city’s business community is leading the charge. Nonprofit or government agencies typically run such jobs programs, which might get only grudging support from private industry because of the costs and uncertainties involved. Sometimes clients complete training only to discover jobs are lacking. Not so in Omaha, where the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce is leading the effort to introduce chronically unemployed or under-employed people into careers that can support families…”
Tag: Workforce development
States and Job Training Initiatives
Tracking the recession: States push job training, By Christine Vestal, July 3, 2009, Stateline.org: “Everyone agrees the way out of this recession is jobs. But even as the recession begins to lift and stimulus projects generate jobs, many unemployed workers will have few prospects because their skills won’t match new openings. That’s where state workforce agencies come in…”