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U.S. job growth likely slowed in July, with the unemployment rate forecast rising back to 4.2%, but that probably would be insufficient to spur the Federal Reserve to resume cutting interest rates ...
The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits inched up modestly last week as businesses continue to retain staff ...
In the DOL’s requested budget for fiscal year 2026, $176 million was requested for “closeout costs” to shut down Job Corps.
Connecticut is home to two Job Corps centers that train 16- to 24-year-olds for jobs in health care, carpentry, plumbing, ...
The students served by Job Corps embody values that we as Americans hold dear: hard work, perseverance and community.
In New Haven, Connecticut, 149 students lost access to critical services. In Texas, the Gary Job Corps Center, the largest in the nation, shut down, displacing 1,400 students and 500 staff.
In Forest County, a federal program helps young adults gain the career skills they need to make a life in the trades after graduation. But federal budget cuts are putting the program at risk. “I would ...
As Blavity reported, many Job Corps enrollees depend on their centers for more than just hands-on training in fields like welding, nursing and carpentry. They count on on-campus housing, meals and ...
The former city council president is looking ahead at his plans for the next three months on the job.
A mobile Mexican consulate set up in Montpelier to help nationals obtain passports, birth certificates and other official documents. An undocumented farmworker living in Vermont who drove his ...
Huntington Bancshares CEO Steve Steinour told CNBC’s Jim Cramer that he’s optimistic about the direction of the economy.
Roca, a Massachusetts-based nonprofit focused on community violence intervention, launched a program in Hartford four years ago specifically targeting at-risk young women. “We are getting ...