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A federal program designed to spur training for high-tech jobs and boost stagnant wages in the country's improving economy could help bridge the gap between the Pittsburgh region's growing technology sector and the workforce needed to sustain it, officials said.
Source: Pittsburgh Tribune Review
Ever since the British defeated the French and the Indians then changed the name of Fort Duquesne to Fort Pitt, the vast majority of the population of Pittsburgh has been white.
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Pittsburgh’s work force is not diverse, a new report shows, but its authors expressed a need for the city to improve.
Source: The Pitt News
With minorities comprising only 11 percent of the workforce in the Pittsburgh metropolitan statistical area, when it comes to diversity the region is lagging behind, according to a report released Thursday.
Source: Pittsburgh Business Times
Last year, the City of Pittsburgh’s Summer Youth Employment program had 500 openings. More than 1,300 youths applied.
Source: The New Pittsburgh Courier
They talked and, later, chanted, but they knew it wasn’t enough.
Roughly 200 service workers — including janitors, security guards, fast food workers, students, professors and community members — gathered in the O’Hara Student Center on Thursday at 5 p.m. to hear a panel of workers and experts discuss wage inequality in Pittsburgh, organizers said. The panel was organized by Pitt, the local 32BJ branch of the Service Employees International Union and a local branch of Fight for $15, a national organization.
Source: The Pitt News
Jerome Bettis, Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto, County Executive Rich Fitzgerald and 3RWIB have announced an ambitious initiative launched to connect 2,000 young people to summer jobs in 2015.
Source: PA Workforce Development Association
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Jerome Bettis earned spot in the Pro Football Hall of Fame by running over would be tacklers, but his first job was with the City of Detroit in its police cadet program.
Source: KDKA-TV
As one of the Steel City’s proudest adopted sons, I’m always looking for ways to give back to Pittsburgh, the big-hearted, fair-minded city whose willingness to give a fair shot to anyone willing to earn their keep helped open so many doors of opportunity for me.
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Since he took office last year, Mayor Bill Peduto has been pushing to expand the city's 30-year-old summer youth employment program to accommodate everyone who wants a job.
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The City of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County are calling on the region's businesses to help employ 2,000 youths this summer, and they have recruited former Pittsburgh Steeler and Pro Football Hall of Famer Jerome Bettis to assist.
Source: Pittsburgh Business Times
A summer job made a difference in Jerome Bettis’ life and he is hoping to help make a difference in the lives of youth in Pittsburgh.
Source: Steelers.com
Jerome Bettis joins city, county leaders and Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board in the Summer Learn and Earn initiative.
Source: WPXI-TV
This series of photos captures images from the Feb. 25, 2015, joint press conference announcing the Summer Learn and Earm initative with Mayor Bill Peduto, Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald, Jerome Bettis and Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board.
Source: WPXI-TV
Pittsburgh Mayor William Peduto, Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald, Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board and others seek to employ 2,000 youth through “Summer of Learn and Earn”
A vigil is normally held to mourn the life of a person who is deceased. On Thursday, February 19, 2015 at 7 p.m., a coalition of supporters hosted a vigil to say goodbye to unfair conditions for 400 University of Pittsburgh property service workers. More than 100 workers, students, staffers, and lawmakers from City Council called on the university to do what is right and fair. The vigil took place at the Pitt Student Union, Forbes Avenue under the Litchfield Towers.
Source: Pennsylvania RealEstateRama
Nearly half of the jobs Pittsburgh will add to the economy this year will require some form of higher education, according to an analysis by the Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board.
Source: Pittsburgh Business Times
The U.S. Conference of Mayors has predicted that Pittsburgh will add more than 18,000 jobs in 2015, and according to a new report from the Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board, those jobs are likely to either be high-paying or low-paying.
Source: WESA-FM
The Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board is projecting that 18,000 jobs could be coming to the Pittsburgh region in 2015 — but 43 percent of those jobs will pay less than $14 an hour.
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Five industry sectors, led by health care, are poised to account for more than 75 percent jobs added in the Pittsburgh region this year, according to analysis by the Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board.
Source: Pittsburgh Business Times