A few days ago, Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis testified before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions in the committee’s series of hearings on the state of the American worker. In the context of slowing economic growth and what are sure to be more cuts coming on the heels of the deficit reduction/debt [...]
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This week at the Clinton Global Initiative-America (CGI-America) jobs and economic recovery covening in Chicago, the National Skills Coalition, Skills for America’s Future, National Fund for Workforce Solutions, and Corporate Voices for Working Families announced the creation of Business Leaders United for Workforce Partnerships. Business Leaders United is an initiative to bring diverse business leaders [...]
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President Obama announced yesterday new investments in the Skills for America’s Future initiative, which focuses on training and preparing our workforce for manufacturing jobs. In partnership with National Association of Manufacturers, community colleges and private sector employers, the new investments will train over 500,000 community college students and allow them to get industry-accepted credentials for manufacturing [...]
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Thank you for your continued advocacy and partnership in support of workforce training. Last week we asked you to make phone calls on behalf of a number of amendments to the MA House Ways and Means Budget. Two of these amendments to fund youth and adult workforce programs were successful in the House. We will [...]
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The FY2012 House Ways and Means budget for the state of MA was released last week, and the funding picture for workforce training and education is mixed. Here’s a brief overview (including FY10 and FY11 funding levels) as well as a call to ask your representatives to support a number of amendments to increase funding [...]
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This weekend, the Boston Globe ran an article that put a human face on the impact of the proposed workforce training and job placement program cuts in HR1. In essence: Most if not all of our state’s 37 career centers would close. Hundreds of thousands of dislocated workers and the long-term unemployed in Massachusetts alone [...]
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Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to take my niece to see Mary Poppins at the Boston Opera House. It was a lot of fun, and in the middle of it, I made an unexpected connection to the debates that have been happening around our federal budget and to the world of workforce development. [...]
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Here are the headlines: Congress passes continuing resolution without workforce cuts FY 2011 federal budget funded until March 18, 2011 Further cuts are possible, and your calls are still needed Here’s what you can do: If you have 2 minutes: Call Senator Brown and Senator Kerry. Say “I don’t want to see cuts to the [...]
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Action Requested: Please call Massachusetts’ two Senators this week to express your support for job training and placement programs, and to save these programs from cuts that would effectively put an end to these programs in Massachusetts. Senator Brown: 617-565-3170 Senator Kerry: 617-565-8519 Background: On February 19, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a continuing [...]
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Two recent editorials, one in the Boston Globe and one in the Boston Business Journal, highlighted ideas for making workforce training more effective and accessible. In “The Drill with Workforce Training” (January 28, Boston Business Journal), Joseph Giglio of Northeastern University makes the case for vocational training (in particular, our voc-tech high school system) and [...]
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