Keila Torres Ocasio Friday, November 21, 2014 ANSONIA – The WorkPlace opened its fourth American Job Center in the region this week at the Harry F. Ford Community Center on Fourth Street. The center will share the city-owned building with TEAM, the area’s...
November 18, 2014 By Elaine S. Povich BRIDGEPORT, Conn.—Maybe it was Tony Stanley’s furrowed brow that was keeping him from getting a job. Or maybe it was his work history in many fields instead of just one. Or maybe it was that he was aiming too high, or maybe too...
By Frank MacEachern, November 3, 2014 BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — A veteran of the Pacific Campaign during World War II said he has told schoolchildren to cherish what they have because many an American has given their life for freedom. “I try to tell them that...
About a quarter of the graduates of Platform to Employment couldn’t come to the ceremony Tuesday. They already have jobs. That’s the highest early placement rate in three years, CEO Joe Carbone said at the graduation, held in an auditorium at Northeast...
It’s a problem some 46,000 Nevadans are dealing with: Long-term unemployment. But there’s a new program in Las Vegas aimed at helping some get back to work. Grace Barnes lost her job more than a year and a half ago, then slowly she lost everything else,...
