Workforce Development
Workforce Development is a key priority for local and state government agencies focused on enhancing their communities’ skills, employability, and productivity. By investing in training programs, education, and job placement services, governments can help create a robust labor force that meets the demands of evolving industries. This directory offers articles on workforce development and related topics, like economic development, which examines strategies for fostering job creation and attracting business investments to stimulate regional growth.
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Longtime small businesses can apply for the $5,000 grants for marketing, business process modernization and improving technology
West Haven officials and the University of New Haven unveiled new free tuition for West Haven’s firefighters, police officers and dispatchers
Several local governments have implemented hazard pay and stipends for first responders and other front-line workers during the COVID-19 pandemic
State and local governments are pulling out all the stops to fill in safety gaps left by the federal government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic
Two options include work-from-home dispatchers and using data to drive staffing decisions
The founder of The Healthy Dispatcher explains why understanding your emotions, and those of others, is so valuable in the 911 call center
The new law provides for two types of leave for employees impacted by COVID-19
Among households making less than $50,000 per year, the percentage is even higher.
Social service agencies say they won’t be able to fill the gap, making increased homelessness and more hospital visits among the biggest concerns.
Though often short on details, which presumably will come later, Brown outlined a variety of proposals to make Buffalo a technology-savvy, inclusive community.
Some of the money could also pay for an expansion of career counseling and skills training for people in jail or recently released from jail.
A bill working its way through the Alabama Legislature seeks to limit city governments’ use of occupational taxes to address revenue shortfalls
A grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is a vital funding source for the San Diego Housing Commission’s Achievement Academy, a center that provides career planning, job skills, job placement and personal financial education.
Gabby Alcantara-Anderson is one of about 25,600 unionized Disney workers making less than $15 an hour. And life in the world’s vacation kingdom is a calculus of choices: rent, food, medicine, a birthday gift for her child.
Mishawaka may open a clinic for public employees that could save the city $1M annually. How can health clinics increase savings for your city?
For many counties, rising poverty rates underscore the importance of fully counting residents in next year’s census, since a count of low-income residents will help determine funding available to help them.
Facing an audience of teachers and parents, seven candidates vowed to overhaul an education system that they say helps the rich, hurts the poor and fails to pay teachers the salaries they deserve.
