Tag Archives: Vocational Training

The New York Times 2:54 pm on July 20, 2022
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America’s Safety Net for Workers Hurt by Globalization Is Falling Apart

A 60-year-old program that provides retraining to workers whose jobs are eliminated because of foreign competition has expired, leaving many at risk.

#factories-and-manufacturing, #international-trade-and-world-market, #labor-and-jobs, #law-and-legislation, #layoffs-and-job-reductions, #shutdowns-institutional, #trade-adjustment-assistance, #united-states-economy, #united-states-politics-and-government, #vocational-training

The New York Times 9:00 am on May 31, 2022
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Why China Is Miles Ahead in a Pacific Race for Influence

To many observers, the South Pacific today reveals what American decline looks like. Even as Washington tries to step up its game, it is still far behind, mistaking speeches for impact and interest for influence.

#china, #diplomatic-service-embassies-and-consulates, #fiji, #humanitarian-aid, #sogavare-manasseh, #solomon-islands, #united-states, #united-states-international-relations, #vocational-training, #wang-yi, #xi-jinping

The New York Times 9:00 am on April 23, 2022
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The End of the All-Male, All-White Cockpit

Airlines are struggling to find enough pilots and to diversify a profession that has been very resistant to change.

#airlines-and-airplanes, #black-people, #careers-and-professions, #content-type-personal-profile, #coronavirus-2019-ncov, #discrimination, #labor-and-jobs, #minorities, #pilots, #race-and-ethnicity, #shortages, #skywest-inc, #united-airlines, #united-states, #united-states-defense-and-military-forces, #vocational-training, #women-and-girls

The New York Times 2:00 pm on April 13, 2022
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NFL Players Try a Different Training Camp: the Broadcast Booth

N.F.L. broadcasters netted massive contracts this off-season. A league-organized boot camp prepares the players who want to follow their path.

#burleson-nate, #fitzgerald-larry, #football, #national-football-league, #news-and-news-media, #sherman-richard-1988, #television, #vocational-training

The New York Times 3:00 pm on April 5, 2022
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Truck Drivers’ On-the-Job Training Can Be Costly if They Quit

Freight haulers draw rookie drivers by promising to get them licensed. The obligation that follows, one lawyer says, amounts to indentured servitude.

#debt-collection, #drivers-licenses, #hechinger-report-the, #labor-and-jobs, #suits-and-litigation-civil, #trucks-and-trucking, #vocational-training, #wages-and-salaries

The New York Times 7:18 pm on March 28, 2022
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Restaurants Rethink Gender’s Role in Service

A dinner out can be discomforting for nonbinary and transgender people. But efforts are afoot to change that.

#discrimination, #gender, #homosexuality-and-bisexuality, #kismet-los-angeles-calif-restaurant, #mendelsohn-michaela, #restaurants, #transgender-and-transsexuals, #united-states, #vocational-training

The New York Times 9:00 am on March 23, 2022
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How 6 Workers Built New Careers In the Pandemic

For some, the Covid-19 crisis presented an opportunity to change course. For each, it was a big risk on a new future.

#adam-simon, #content-type-personal-profile, #coronavirus-2019-ncov, #david-levy, #dwanet-perry, #jane-watiri-taylor, #labor-and-jobs, #liz-martinez, #quarantine-life-and-culture, #shutdowns-institutional, #trevonte-currie, #unemployment, #vocational-training

The New York Times 2:02 pm on March 21, 2022
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After Tragedy, a Female Construction Worker Builds Homes

Female construction workers are still a rarity, but they are on the rise. After personal losses and three bouts of Covid-19, Deyonna Hancock is finding a new start in the industry.

#black-people, #building-construction, #careers-and-professions, #content-type-personal-profile, #coronavirus-2019-ncov, #hancock-deyonna, #ironworker, #labor-and-jobs, #oakland-calif, #vocational-training, #women-and-girls, #women-and-leadership-2022

The New York Times 1:00 pm on January 14, 2022
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Millions Have Lost a Step Into the Middle Class, Researchers Say

The new figure points to the challenge for the majority of Americans who do not have a four-year college degree.

#accenture-ltd, #computers-and-the-internet, #corporate-social-responsibility, #hiring-and-promotion, #labor-and-jobs, #minorities, #nonprofit-organizations, #opportunitywork, #shortages, #vocational-training, #wages-and-salaries

The New York Times 4:10 pm on October 16, 2021
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In Venezuela, a Rum Maker Offers Gangsters a Life Outside of Crime

In the process, the family running the company, Ron Santa Teresa, has gone from bankruptcy to exporting an award-winning vintage rum.

#bacardi-ltd, #chavez-hugo, #economic-conditions-and-trends, #gangs, #maduro-nicolas, #organized-crime, #politics-and-government, #ron-santa-teresa-usa, #rum, #venezuela, #vocational-training

The New York Times 9:00 am on September 9, 2021
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House Panels Start Writing $3.5 Trillion Social Policy and Climate Bill

Five committees will start drafting the components of Democrats’ far-reaching legislation in an arduous process that could take several days.

#democratic-party, #education-pre-school, #federal-taxes-us, #global-warming, #health-insurance-and-managed-care, #house-committee-on-ways-and-means, #house-of-representatives, #labor-and-jobs, #law-and-legislation, #pelosi-nancy, #senate, #tuition, #united-states-economy, #united-states-politics-and-government, #vocational-training

The New York Times 9:00 am on September 9, 2021
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Skilled Workers Are Scarce, Posing a Challenge for Biden’s Infrastructure Plan

One estimate says the bill would add $1.4 trillion to the U.S. economy over eight years, but without enough workers, efforts to strengthen roads and public transit could be set back.

#american-jobs-plan-2021, #biden-joseph-r-jr, #infrastructure-public-works, #labor-and-jobs, #shortages, #united-states-economy, #united-states-politics-and-government, #vocational-training

The New York Times 9:00 am on September 9, 2021
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Biden’s Infrastructure Plan: Scarcity of Skilled Workers Poses Challenge

One estimate says the bill would add $1.4 trillion to the U.S. economy over eight years, but without enough workers, efforts to strengthen roads and public transit could be set back.

#american-jobs-plan-2021, #biden-joseph-r-jr, #infrastructure-public-works, #labor-and-jobs, #shortages, #united-states-economy, #united-states-politics-and-government, #vocational-training

The New York Times 9:00 am on August 18, 2021
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Workers, in Demand, Have a New Demand of Their Own: A Career Path

More low-wage employees want opportunities to grow. Big companies are making more promises to help them.

#bank-of-america-corporation, #black-people, #careers-and-professions, #coronavirus-2019-ncov, #hiring-and-promotion, #hispanic-americans, #labor-and-jobs, #merit-america, #npower, #per-scholas-inc, #vocational-training, #wages-and-salaries, #year-up

The New York Times 7:00 am on June 14, 2021
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To Fill Millions of Open Jobs, Many Workers Need More Than Skills

Helping people land good jobs with career paths takes more than skills training, labor experts say. Coaching, mentoring and other assistance are also needed.

#careers-and-professions, #coaches-and-managers, #goodwill-industries, #google-inc, #hiring-and-promotion, #labor-and-jobs, #markle-foundation, #microsoft-corp, #per-scholas-inc, #unemployment, #united-states-economy, #vocational-training

The New York Times 1:00 pm on March 25, 2021
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Left in the Lurch by Private Loans From For-Profit Colleges

The loans have ensnared hundreds of thousands of students, who aren’t protected by the same government safeguards carried by federal loans.

#consumer-protection, #financial-aid-education, #for-profit-schools, #regulation-and-deregulation-of-industry, #student-loans, #vocational-training

The New York Times 10:00 pm on March 19, 2021
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Student Loan Forgiveness Program Made Decisions in 12 Minutes, Documents Say

Education Dept. documents filed in federal court describe a process that denied 130,000 claims from borrowers who say schools misled them.

#alsup-william-haskell, #cardona-miguel-a-1975, #colleges-and-universities, #devos-elizabeth-1958, #education-department-us, #for-profit-schools, #frauds-and-swindling, #student-loans, #suits-and-litigation-civil, #sweet-theresa, #united-states-politics-and-government, #vocational-training

The New York Times 10:08 am on March 8, 2021
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At Watch Schools, Women Know It’s Their Time

Female students may be outnumbered, but they are confident in class and convinced of ultimate success. After all, one said, both sexes “have the same ability to make a watch work.”

#ecole-technique-de-la-vallee-de-joux, #hiko-mizuno-college-of-jewelry, #lycee-edgar-faure, #vocational-training, #watches-and-clocks, #women-and-girls, #your-feed-fashion

The New York Times 7:30 pm on February 27, 2021
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Getting the Unemployed Back to Work

Economic growth is the primary corrective for unemployment, but targeted aid can help people find jobs more quickly.

#coronavirus-2019-ncov, #labor-and-jobs, #unemployment, #united-states-economy, #vocational-training

The New York Times 10:00 am on February 18, 2021
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Should the Feds Guarantee You a Job?

Not long ago, the question was rarely asked. Now, politicians and economists of various stripes are willing to consider it.

#economics-theory-and-philosophy, #federal-aid-us, #government-employees, #labor-and-jobs, #law-and-legislation, #unemployment, #united-states-economy, #vocational-training

The New York Times 10:00 am on December 1, 2020
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Reinventing Workers for the Post-Covid Economy

Especially in service industries, old jobs may not be coming back. Training programs are aiming to provide skills for more resilient occupations.

#careers-and-professions, #coronavirus-2019-ncov, #coronavirus-aid-relief-and-economic-security-act-2020, #hiring-and-promotion, #labor-and-jobs, #layoffs-and-job-reductions, #shutdowns-institutional, #united-states-economy, #vocational-training

The New York Times 12:00 pm on November 17, 2020
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Don’t Fear the Robots, and Other Lessons From a Study of the Digital Economy

A task force assembled by M.I.T. examined how technology has changed, and will change, the work force.

#community-colleges, #computers-and-the-internet, #e-learning, #labor-and-jobs, #massachusetts-institute-of-technology, #research, #united-states-economy, #vocational-training, #wages-and-salaries

The New York Times 9:01 am on September 24, 2020
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China Has a New Plan to Tame Tibet

It failed to coax cultural assimilation with economic incentives. Now it’s going for coerced labor and micromanaging people’s very lifestyles.

#agriculture-and-farming, #buddhism, #china, #chinese-language, #communist-party-of-china, #dalai-lama, #demonstrations-protests-and-riots, #forced-labor, #han-chinese-ethnic-group, #himalayas, #immigration-and-emigration, #immolation, #inner-mongolia, #jamestown-foundation, #jiang-zemin, #labor-and-jobs, #language-and-languages, #lhasa-tibet, #minorities, #nomadic-people, #politics-and-government, #qinghai-province-china, #religion-and-belief, #reuters-group-plc, #sichuan-province-china, #surveillance-of-citizens-by-government, #tashi-wangchuk, #tibet, #vocational-training, #xi-jinping, #xinjiang-china

The New York Times 9:00 am on July 13, 2020
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The Pandemic Has Accelerated Demands for a More Skilled Work Force

Even groups that regularly disagree on labor issues said there should be significant public investment in programs that can upgrade the skills of American workers.

#careers-and-professions, #computers-and-the-internet, #coronavirus-2019-ncov, #e-learning, #exelon-corporation, #labor-and-jobs, #united-states-economy, #united-states-politics-and-government, #vocational-training, #wages-and-salaries

The New York Times 9:35 pm on June 7, 2020
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Gaining Skills Virtually to Close the Inequality Gap

Successful job-training programs for low-income young people have long been held in person. Can a virtual ladder still be a path to the middle class?

#computers-and-the-internet, #coronavirus-2019-ncov, #e-learning, #income-inequality, #internships, #labor-and-jobs, #per-scholas-inc, #quarantine-life-and-culture, #vocational-training, #year-up, #youth

The New York Times 9:00 am on April 23, 2020
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Use the Coronavirus Shutdown to Train Workers

We can use this stoppage in the economy to upgrade our nation’s productivity.

#bureau-of-labor-statistics, #careers-and-professions, #computers-and-the-internet, #e-learning, #edx, #labor-and-jobs, #unemployment, #united-states, #united-states-economy, #vocational-training

The New York Times 9:00 am on March 24, 2020
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One City’s Road to Recovery Offers Lessons, and Hope

Lawrence, Mass., once an industrial power, set out to reverse a long decline with the Federal Reserve’s help. Now it faces a new economic challenge.

#area-planning-and-renewal, #economic-conditions-and-trends, #federal-reserve-bank-of-boston, #labor-and-jobs, #lawrence-mass, #small-business, #urban-areas, #vocational-training