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Goodwill of Southwestern Pennsylvania is seeking candidates for the RISE job-training and employment-assistance program designed to assist youth whom are residents of certain local communities. The program is entering its third year.
Source: South Pittsburgh Reporter
Billions of dollars over decades have failed to reduce poverty significantly in the United States. Some progress has been made since President Lyndon Johnson’s tenure, but his war on poverty clearly has not been won.
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Generations ago, many of our families came to Pittsburgh to provide the labor that powered the first large-scale industrial age. In the 19th century, the vast industries of steel, glass, oil and gas and manufacturing sprang from the handiwork of practical, hard-working men and women for whom “making” was second nature. They were self-reliant, get-it-done people, and, for them, working with their hands to make something was the wellspring of wealth, work and improved quality of life.
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
In the Aug. 14 article “Young People Struggle for Jobs,” the PG’s Ann Belser paints a sobering picture about the nation’s unemployment rate and youth.
Ms. Belser reports that the unemployment rate for young people is 14.3 percent, more than twice the national unemployment rate. And the number of young people working or looking for work continues to hover near 60 percent, among the lowest rates since 1948.
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The Pittsburgh success story goes something like this: Once the steel mills closed down, we turned away from manufacturing and doubled down on investments in finance, medicine and higher education. We exchanged our union cards for college diplomas.
Source: Pittsburgh City Paper
Youth employment has been on a decreasing trend since 2000 and the Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board (3RWIB) believes that educators and employers could work to get young people more engaged.
Source: WESA-FM
About 20 percent of Pittsburgh area high school freshmen will not graduate, according to a new study by the Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board.
Source: Pittsburgh Business Times
Every year, Marc USA brings in between 10 and 20 interns to its headquarters at Station Square — generally rising seniors in college whose studies have prepared them to plunge right into the work done at the advertising and marketing firm.
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board Friday released a request for proposal seeking innovative solutions for workforce services for adults and dislocated workers in the city of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County. A contractor to lead the workforce development system is expected to be selected in November with anticipated funding ranging between $3 million and $5 million.
Source: Pittsburgh Business Times Morning Edition
Members of the House Democratic Policy Committee heard from school administrators, business executives and higher education advocates at a public hearing on July 23 focusing on jobs and economic development, said state Rep. Jake Wheatley, D-Allegheny.
Source: South Pittsburgh Reporter
PITTSBURGH (July 22, 2014) — Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board (3RWIB) cheers the historic bipartisan, bicameral workforce legislation — the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act — signed into law today by President Barack Obama.
Pennsylvania lawmakers are planning a hearing they hope will foster discussion on growing Pittsburgh’s employment opportunities.
Source: WESA FM
Oberg Industries’ tucked away buildings in Freeport, Pennsylvania are easy to miss. But inside the nondescript structures are tidy rows of machinery worth hundreds of thousands of dollars each. In one department, refrigerator-sized electric discharge machines, which cut metal using wire, sizzle away like cooking bacon. In another, workers operate manual machines. In one room a worker runs quality assurance using a high-tech instrument.
Source: WESA-FM
During a tour of Larimer, Federal Housing Administration Commissioner Carol Galante passed dozens of vacant lots and deteriorating houses. But along the way she also passed the neighborhood's Environmental and Energy Outreach Center, a branch of Chatham University, and the popular Bakery Square — signs that one of Pittsburgh's long forgotten neighborhoods is being reborn.
Source: Pittsburgh City Paper
More than 60 percent of the 25,000 jobs available in the Pittsburgh region require specialized technical training - but only 40 percent of them require a four-year degree, according to the Allegheny Conference on Community Development and the Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board.
Source: WESA-FM
The Pittsburgh Promise and Pittsburgh Public Schools are embarking on an innovative education opportunity through the introduction of a workforce development initiative aimed at helping 10(th), 11(th) and 12(th) grade students to pursue career and technical training, workforce certifications and post-secondary education credits beginning in the 2014-15 school year this fall. The program has been designed in collaboration with the Community College of Allegheny County, the Energy Innovation Center, the Sprout Fund, Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board, and other technical schools, and with insight, input and support from the region's employers.
Source: The Providence Journal (via PRNewswire)
The Pittsburgh Promise and Pittsburgh Public Schools on Thursday announced they are launching a workforce development initiative to help students in grades 10-12 pursue career and technical training.
Source: Pittsburgh Business Times
The Pittsburgh Promise plans to announce today students could use their post-secondary scholarship money for certain career and technology programs at Community College of Allegheny County while still in high school.
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Manufacturers across the United States are targeting schools and colleges to let young people know there is more to manufacturing than pulling levers on an assembly line.
Source: Dubuque Telegraph Herald
Manufacturers across the United States are targeting schools and colleges to let young people know there is more to manufacturing than pulling levers on an assembly line.
Source: Pittsburgh Tribune Review