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Dress for Success Mid-Fairfield County Joins Google Initiative to Provide 100,000 Black Women With Career Development and Digital Skills Training Over the Next Year

Created by Black Women for Black Women, Program Aims to Equip Group Disproportionately Impacted by Unemployment with Critical Digital Skills Needed for Today’s In-Demand Jobs Dress for Success Mid-Fairfield County is excited to be a partner of Grow with Google: Black...

January Jobs Report

By Joseph M. Carbone, Pres/CEO The January Jobs Report issued Friday was a stark reminder of trouble ahead. We have known for months that the pandemic recession would lay heaviest on the backs of the poorest among us. Here are some important features of that report...

Bridgeport works to expand access to senior COVID vaccination

CT Post. By Brian Lockhart. Feb. 2, 2021. BRIDGEPORT — Scott Wilderman, president of Career Resources, is used to helping people find jobs but now his nonprofit will be undertaking another mission: Helping elderly residents obtain the coronavirus vaccine. Career...

New Program Will Give Ansonia Students Manufacturing Experience

Valley Independent Sentinel. By Jean Falbo-Sosnovich. Feb 2, 2021 ANSONIA — Thanks to a new partnership with The WorkPlace in Bridgeport, Ansonia High School (AHS) juniors and seniors will have an opportunity to take part in professional training aimed at preparing...

Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) – Second Forgivable Loans for Harder-Hit Businesses

From the office of Senator Richard Blumenthal. More information at: www.blumenthal.senate.gov/covid-19-resources With the reopening of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), many organizations in CT are providing no-cost assistance to small businesses seeking to...

Opinion: We can beat long-term joblessness

By Joseph Carbone, Pres/CEO, The WorkPlace. CT Post Dec 18 2020. Long-term unemployment has an official definition — exhausting six months of unemployment benefits and remaining unemployed. It’s perfect language for statisticians, it’s quick data and few will demand...