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Category Archives: Workforce Training
Community College: The Best Kept Secret in America.
“Community colleges should accept and champion that they are the nation’s primary provider of job-focused education and training.”
https://opportunityamericaonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Indispensable_Inst_FullReport.pdf
The State of American Trade Schools
“We are lending money we don’t have to kids who can’t pay it back to train them for jobs that no longer exist.”
– Dirty Jobs host Mike Rowe
https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a26789417/trade-schools/
The Young-Parent Balancing Act
“For young parents in work and school, more time spent in both activities can mean higher earnings in future years. Urban research shows that each 1 percent increase in parents’ time spent combining work and education is associated with a $451 bump in annual family income at age 30 (although there are other factors at play).”
https://www.urban.org/features/young-parent-balancing-act
Single Mothers Are Surging Into the Work Force
“Single mothers in the United States can face many barriers to employment, like finding affordable child care and predictable work schedules. For many, a sick child or a flat tire can mean a lost job.
Yet since 2015, something surprising has happened: The share of young single mothers in the work force has climbed about four percentage points, driven by those without college degrees, according to a New York Times analysis of Current Population Survey data. It’s a striking rise even compared with other groups of women who have increased their labor force participation during this period of very low unemployment.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/29/upshot/single-mothers-surge-employment.html?smid=em-share
HousingThink Podcast – Episode 10
In this episode, we discuss the challenges that administrative assistants and single parents have in finding workforce housing. In our news segment, we describe an innovative training incentive program for workforce housing renters.
Ending the Stigma of Trade School
“The stigma of vocational school needs to end. Parents, the stigma started with us and it needs to end with us.”
https://grownandflown.com/end-stigma-trade-school/
Canadian High Schools Bring Back the Trades
“Windsor-Essex electricians and plumbers could be fully qualified to work by the time they are 20 years old. That’s if they take advantage of an expanding skilled trades program on which the Windsor-Essex Catholic District School Board and St. Clair College have been collaborating.”