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Study Reveals Many Metro Detroiters Lack Basic Skills for Employment

Media Pub Date: 
May 4, 2011 (All day)
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http://www.detroitchamber.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5002
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Detroit Regional Chamber of Commerce

The Detroit Regional Chamber of Commerce highlighted a study released by the Detroit Regional Workforce Fund which found that many workers in Detroit area lack "the basic skills necessary for employment in even the most entry-level employment opportunities, highlighting a number of serious challenges in the region’s education and employment infrastructure." The study is available for download

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    Detroit Regional Workforce Fund: Addressing Detroit’s Basic Skills Crisis

    05/02/2011
    | BY National Fund Staff

    This report from the Detroit Regional Workforce Discusses the nature of Michigan's workforce challenges and the skills gap the state faces between the jobs available and the skills of workers hoping to fill those positions.The Detroit Regional Workforce Fund recently released a report analyzing Michigan's workforce challenges.

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    New regional initiative launched to close the skills gap and get people to work

    Media Pub Date: 
    January 21, 2011 (All day)
    Media Link: 
    http://www.mlive.com/jobs/index.ssf/2011/01/new_initiative_launched_to_close_the...
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    MLive.com

    MLive.com covered the launch of the Detroit Regional Workforce Fund which will "address the growing gap between the skills workers in Michigan currently have and those they will need to fill the thousands of middle-skill jobs that will be coming as the economy improves."

    Detroit and Southeast Michigan Fund for Innovative Workforce Solutions

    The Detroit Regional Workforce Fund is a regional public/private collaborative that supports partnerships among employers and workforce development partners (workforce partnerships), effects change in the region’s strategic workforce vision, and aligns public and private resources in new ways around workforce development.

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    Knight Foundation invests $1.1 million in National Fund for Workforce Solutions, Building on Community-Based Efforts to Promote Jobs and Careers

    BOSTON, MA (August 25, 2010) – At a time when concern about job growth dominates the economic news, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has awarded a new $1.1 million grant to the National Fund for Workforce Solutions to test local approaches to preparing jobseekers and workers for careers.

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    August 25, 2010
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    Knight Foundation invests $1.1 million in National Fund for Workforce Solutions

    08/25/2010
    | BY National Fund Staff

    At a time when concern about job growth dominates the economic news, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has awarded a new $1.1 million grant to the National Fund for Workforce Solutions to test local approaches to preparing jobseekers and workers for careers.

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