FirstHealth’s job shadowing program becomes family affair

PINEHURST—Gabrielle Donze discovered she wanted to go into health care during a high school field trip to FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital. Now, at only 17, she is ready to explore the many ...
Rolling Out

Look for government-funded job retraining programs before paying for training

Maintaining competitiveness in the job market necessitates continuous skill acquisition. Recognizing the pivotal role of a skilled workforce, many governments worldwide have initiated robust job ...
Forbes

The Best Job Training Program In America

Fast food jobs are much in the news today, in relation to California's new Fast Food law and U.S. Department of Labor current mantras on "quality jobs". In my early years in the community job training ...
American Enterprise Institute

Here’s a Kind of Job-Training Program That Works

Job training and workforce development programs have long been plagued by weak wage and job-persistence outcomes. Since the United States spends markedly less on these types of programs than do other ...
The New York Times

A Jobs Program Broke the Rules to Succeed. Now the Rules May Change.

Pursuit, a nonprofit that trains low-income workers to become software engineers, is urging New York legislators to pass a new regulatory model for jobs programs. By Steve Lohr Steve Lohr has written ...
The New York Times

This Job Training Program Wants Payback From Students

Pursuit, a nonprofit in Queens, requires those who get jobs to pay it 5 percent to 15 percent of their earnings for four years. By James Barron Good morning. It’s Monday. We’ll look at an innovative ...