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Time Magazine is the latest publication to jump in the fray highlighting how community colleges can be a crucial cog in helping the country dig out of the recession. Time released a lengthy story this week (“Can Community Colleges Save the U.S. Economy”) that goes in depth on how quickly CCs can get students ready [...]

President Obama is slated to be at Macomb Community College in Michigan today, where he’s set to outline the details of a $12 billion plan to bolster community colleges. The lion’s share of the 10-year initiative, according to The Wall Street Journal, is $9 billion that “will be used to award grants through an ‘access [...]

The president’s Council of Economic Advisers, headed by Christina Romer, has released a new study, “Preparing the Workers of Today for the Jobs of Tomorrow,” that details projected national employment growth in sectors such as health care, construction, and environmentally related industries. The crux of the report, however, is that a person’s educational attainment is [...]

Summary The Employment and Training Administration recently released five competitive grants (roughly $500 million) targeted toward “research, labor exchange, and job training for projects that prepare workers for careers in energy efficiency and renewable energy . . .” >> You can see these grants here: The 5 grants are: 1. State Labor Market Information Improvement [...]

Silatech, an innovative social enter­prise created to meet the urgent need to gener­ate new jobs and opportunities for young people in the Arab world, is preparing to launch a host of pilot initiatives in Yemen. EMSI is pleased to be a partner with Silatech in one such project, which involves providing labor market and economic [...]

Here’s a new report from the Seedco Policy Center that goes in depth on linking workforce development and economic development. As the executive summary mentions, the report “details opportunities—and cautions against pitfalls— commonly encountered by those attempting to link two complementary but very different systems.” The study does an admirable job outlining the different natures, [...]

As we pointed out in our series of green job white papers, an important facet to understanding the emerging green economy is looking at occupation data. This requires distinguishing between job titles associated with green projects and actual occupation categories. When occupation categories are used the data can be traced back to (1) specific industries [...]

The Associated Press has generated a neat interactive map that gives a look at unemployment, foreclosure, and bankruptcy rates for every county in the U.S. The AP has combined all the figures to come up with an Economic Stress Index for each county, as of March 2009. The map also benchmarks the numbers to October [...]

When the Recovery Act was passed into law, it contained $500 million in competitive grants for “projects that prepare workers for careers in the energy efficiency and renewable energy sectors” (i.e. green fields). Last week, the Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration released a Training and Employment Notice that describes the initial plans for [...]

Nearly three months after the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) was signed into law, details of some of the infrastructure spending have been released.  All told, $5.5 billion has been targeted to make “high-performance green [federal] buildings, renovate and construct federal buildings and courthouses, and renovate and construct land ports of entry.” [...]

An article last week in Community College Times illustrates the important role that two-year colleges play in helping give regional economies a much-needed boost. By furnishing skilled workers in a timely fashion, community and technical colleges are “incredibly important economic engines,” according to Karen Elzey of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Institute for a Competitive [...]