Guiding students toward a career is challenging amid a changing economy, and many are increasingly debating the merits of a traditional college education versus specialized job training. Some trade ...

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 ...

A federally funded education and job training program for at-risk young people is on the chopping block. The U.S. Department of Labor is moving to shut down dozens of Job Corps programs, including ...

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, ComEd and a coalition of community and corporate partners celebrated a new class of 73 graduates from ComEd job training programs, CONSTRUCT Infrastructure Academy and ...

Employers in the current hiring climate are making a shift away from insisting on a college degree as a primary requirement for applicants, and emphasizing the value of a candidate’s skills and their ...

Unemployed and low-skilled workers can significantly bolster their earning power by participating in job-training programs that are developed in collaboration with specific industries, like ...

For the first time in a long time, Karl Ely figured he had pretty much everything he needed. Ely moved to Portland from Philadelphia several decades ago. The aspiring artist worked as a line cook and ...

Senators Durbin and Duckworth meet Illinois Community Colleges to discuss affordable education and job training programs amid ...

EVERETT, Wash. — Federal cuts and rising costs are forcing the elimination of job programs in western Washington that help pull people out of poverty, leaving workers and advocates worried about ...