From Billy Penn: The Women’s Community Revitalization Project offers 282 units and a slew of community services.
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Career Day was designed to reach the young people at three pivotal periods: students finishing seventh grade, who will be applying to high schools in the fall; high school juniors, who will be applying to colleges; and high school seniors entering the workforce who will be looking for jobs. From: The Philadelphia Public School Notebook (Read more.)
While the U.S. unemployment rate has fallen to an 18-year low, life remains difficult for the roughly 44,000 Philadelphians without jobs. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ May jobs report, the U.S. unemployment rate currently sits at 3.8 percent, or about 6.1 million Americans. In Philadelphia, the unemployment rate has also been declining, but it remains higher than the national rate at 5.3 percent. From: WHYY (Read more.)
Programs that lead future barbers, painters, coders, and laboratory technicians through pre-apprentice and (Read more.)
Tanya Wallace – Gobern, the Executive Director of The National Black Workers Center Project talks about the challenges facing Black workers at the intersection of racism and a deterioration in labor rights. (Read more.)
Philadelphia City Councilwoman Helen Gym talks to the Wake Up With WURD team about her Fair Work Week legislation and how it could impact the lives of Philadelphians who live with great economic instability. (Read more.)
A grass roots group fighting for a fairer work week arrives in Philly today. Will it make getting ahead easier for those who need it? (Read more.)
As cities across the country show off how attractive they are to millennials in a mad dash to lure Amazon’s second headquarters, Mayor Kenney took a pause from the high-tech fanfare to announce to the city’s business community an ambitious strategy to train and connect Philadelphians to blue-collar jobs. (Read more.)
Philly’s youth unemployment rate has been hovering between 14 and 16 percent for the past few years — and that number jumps by 10 points when considering youth of color. One way to tackle the issue? Prepare those young people for employment and then connect them to job opportunities. (Read more.)
WURD’s afternoon host contends unemployment is worse than officials want you to know (Read more.)
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