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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
Pittsburgh's health services economy is thriving and adapting well to market changes, despite the loss of hospital jobs reported in the first quarter of fiscal 2015, a workforce analyst said Tuesday.
Source: Pittsburgh Business Times
Employment in a key sector of western Pennsylvania's economy has stalled as reimbursement for medical care has fallen and fewer people were admitted to the hospital for treatment.
Source: Pittsburgh Business Times
In trying to attract federal funds to expand apprenticeship opportunities in Pittsburgh, the Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board is putting out a call to arms to employers.
Source: Pittsburgh Business Times
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
For decades, the alarm has been sounded over a perceived dearth of qualified workers to fill jobs in science, technology, engineering and math fields.
Source: Pittsburgh Business Times
3 Rivers WIB CEO Stefani Pashman authored this piece about trade education for the Pittsburgh Promise's magazine, Ideapod.
Source: The Pittsburgh Promise's Ideapod
Health care is the engine of western Pennsylvania's economy, so a downdraft in hospital employment should cause worry.
Source: Pittsburgh Business Times
3 Rivers WIB CEO Stefani Pashman, Board President Mark Latterner, and Board Member Kim Slater-Wood discuss jobs and the public workforce system with Jon Delano on KDKA-TV's Sunday Business Page.
Source: KDKA-TV
Phyllis Wolfe McDonough knew she could elevate her work as a nurse practitioner with a doctorate, but it took a postcard from a Pennsylvania university she had never heard of in 2007 for her to begin her long-distance journey.
Source: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Aaron Friedlander stared at the equation, written in black marker with a challenge above: “Spot the bug! Win a shirt.”
Lost among a sea of suits at a huge Carnegie Mellon University job fair on Wednesday, Friedlander, wearing a T-shirt, waved at the writer of the bum equation, Adam Cecchetti, a CMU alumnus and founder of Deja Vu Security.
Source: Pittsburgh Tribune Review
Schools such as Westmoreland Community College and the Pennsylvania College of Technology have received grants for training programs.
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette PowerSource
If you work in one of Pittsburgh’s East End neighborhoods, there’s about a 50-50 chance that you work in health care or social assistance industries.
But chances are, if you work in the East End, you don’t actually live there. And if you live there, you probably don’t work there.
Source: WESA-FM
3RWIB Board President Mark Latterner and CEO Stefani Pashman discuss the regional workforce and the public workforce development system with WDVE-FM disc jockey Sean McDowell.
Source: WDVE-FM
Pittsburgh’s East End has 1.4 jobs for each person in its labor force, but just 6 percent of the area’s 21,000 jobs are held by residents of the area.
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette