Thanks to everyone who has already made calls to ensure important programs and funding for workforce training, youth jobs and adult basic education make it into the FY2013 state budget. Here are the critical amendments to support in the Senate budget. Please call your state Senator today and ask him or her to support important workforce amendments listed [...]
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Thanks to everyone who made calls to ensure important programs and funding for workforce training, youth jobs and adult basic education made it into the FY2013 state budget. Here are the updates on how we did in the House budget, where we did win some increases: Advocates worked hard to increase resources for youth jobs [...]
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The House budget has been reported out, and amendments have been filed. The next step is budget caucuses that will start Monday to discuss the amendments. (For a useful summary of the budget process, please see the Massachusetts Policy and Organizing Leadership Academy’s latest update.) We need your help to consolidate support for important workforce amendments [...]
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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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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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Your vote counts on November 2! Before you go to the polls on Tuesday, take a few minutes to hear what the candidates had to say about jobs and training at the Skills2Compete MA gubernatorial forum last month. The person we elect to serve as our next governor will make crucial decisions about the Commonwealth’s [...]
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Courtesy of Chris Lovett, BNN
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