The US Census Bureau is in the process of hiring one million people in preparation for next year’s nose count. Most of the jobs pay between ten and twenty dollars per hour. Democratic Senator Charles Schummer along with three other Senate Democrats is urging the Obama administration to give hiring preference to the [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 17, 2009
Ed Montgomery, the Obama administration’s Director of Recovery for Auto Communities and Workers, aka “Car Czar,” has announced the commitment of $25 million in stimulus funds for the retraining of laid off auto workers. The cash be awarded to training programs that can help auto workers transition to industries that are seeking new employees, such as [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 26, 2009
The Savannah River Site in South Carolina, which is hiring 3,000 new workers, hosted a job fair this week in Allendale to fill the remaining 2,400 jobs. Through the American Recovery Act, the SRS is receiving $1.6 billion in stimulus dollars for job creation. Over 8,000 people have applied for jobs with Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, and [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 26, 2009
Between contributions from the Obama administration’s federal stimulus program and the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, WorkReady Philadelphia will be able give temporary summer jobs to 9,000 at-risk young people in the City of Brotherly Love this summer. The program will get $7.4 million in federal recovery funds. WorkReady employed almost 8,000 youths aged 14 to [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 17, 2009
The Savannah River Site will hire 3,000 new workers. The Obama Administration is giving the SRS $1.6 billion from the stimulus funds. Thousands of new employees will be put to work to reduce the site’s environmental footprint, and accelerating the completion of planned projects. A majority of the jobs are temporary, providing work for 30 months. A [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 28, 2009
Vice President Joe Biden announced plans for a national green jobs program on Tuesday, at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Five hundred million dollars in federal stimulus funds will train workers for jobs making public housing more energy efficient by adding solar panels. Other workers will be trained to manufacture wind turbines. Biden said the [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Tennessee’s Democratic Governor Phil Bredesen used his seventh State of the State address last night to push for a national health care system, propose more “green business” in the state, and plead for bipartisanship. Bredesen, whose term expires next year, is being vetted as a candidate for Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Obama [...]
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Thursday, December 3, 2009
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