10/20/2009
The Grundy Livingston Kankakee Workforce Board is soliciting proposals from organizations to provide workforce development services, comprehensive year round youth services and youth summer employment program for the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) in the three counties which make up Local Workforce Area (LWA) 11 which are Grundy, Livingston and Kankakee County.
02/23/2009
Four out of every 10 young adults (ages 16-24) lacking a high school diploma received some type of government assistance in 2001, and a dropout is more than eight times as likely to be in jail or prison as person with at least a high school diploma.
01/27/2009
The Workforce Boards of Metropolitan Chicago, in partnership with the Metro Economic Growth Alliance of Chicago, has prepared a position paper to express the views of these two organizations on public policy relative to workforce development.
11/18/2008
The local job training plan is being modified to incorporate additional dislocated worker funds.
06/03/2008
An increased “green” awareness and a growing number of individuals, businesses, and communities “going green” is translating into big business.
06/02/2008
In recent years, economists and public policy experts have focused a great deal of attention on a growing need to increase the quality of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) skills of its current and future workforce.
05/02/2008
The Workforce Board awards more than $422,000 to local youth programs.
09/14/2007
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