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Posted inFort Worth
Building innovation and the workforce: Tarrant leaders stress power of higher education
Preparing students for the workforce drives Texas Wesleyan’s efforts to integrate career skills into teaching well before graduation
Posted inCalifornia
Half a million young Californians aren’t in school or work. Most are men
Thousands of men in California are neither working nor in school. Gov. Gavin Newsom has called it a “crisis,” both for the labor market and for men’s mental health.
Posted inWisconsin
Beginning farmers struggle to find land. Could a new website help?
A new Republican proposal aimed at supporting small- and medium-sized farms would create a government-run website where retiring farmers could post land for sale or rent.
Posted inIndianapolis
Eastside church provides construction training to young people
Nehemiah Project students learn career skills and construction trades.
Posted inWisconsin
Meet the teens keeping this northeast Wisconsin village from becoming a news desert
Pulaski News is a fixture of the community, a tool to prepare students for the workforce and the last official source keeping residents informed about hyperlocal happenings.
Posted inTexas
Texas State Technical College looks to voters to fund upgrades for old buildings and tools
Proposition 1 would create an $850 million endowment for the college system and its 11 campuses, which are struggling to accommodate a growing student population.
Posted inIndianapolis
Seniors out of work because of Trump administration funding freezes
Goodwill’s senior employment program helped older, low-income adults get job training.
Posted inWisconsin
Long wait for a dental appointment? Wisconsin tech colleges are working to fix that
A $20 million boost from the Legislature is expanding oral health training programs, aiming to ease a dental worker shortage.
Posted inCalifornia
Oil refinery closures leave workers searching for a job that ‘just doesn’t exist’
For the refinery workers being laid off — most of whom lack a college degree — it’s unlikely they’ll find another job that pays as well, despite recent efforts by the state to help.