By Lynda L. Jones Over this recent Labor Day weekend, unemployment news was beyond dismal for the Black population especially. The August jobs report shows that Black unemployment is the highest now than it has been in 27 years, with a rate surge of 16.7 percent nationally. While Black unemployment surges, White unemployment fell slightly [...]

The Department of Children and Families Secretary Eloise Anderson announced this week that the transitional jobs program will help provide 4,000 individuals with an immediate income, an opportunity to develop the skills and experience the local labor market demands, and a positive work history. This project, launched less than one year ago and continued in [...]

A program that is matching low-income job seekers with businesses appears to have gained the support needed in Madison to continue. The future of the Transitional Jobs Program was up in the air recently as the Joint Finance Committee was considering possibly eliminating funding for it. The committee however has recently approved a continuation of [...]

“Accomplished with the support of people across the state,” Coggs says Sen. Spencer Coggs’ Progressive legislative agenda of educating children, protecting toddlers in day care centers, bolstering the rights of workers, providing justice for the under-privileged and enacting landmark legislation recognizing key individuals and events in the Civil Rights Movement met with success as the [...]

November 2009 Column By Don Sykes, President/CEO of Milwaukee Area Workforce Investment Board www.milwaukeewib.org Let’s start with what we already know: Like many other major cities, Milwaukee is dealing with one of the highest unemployment rates in years. Recent figures indicate the city’s unemployment rate is now at 12.4 percent. By now, most of us [...]