Tag: Construction
Back to Work: Opportunities for displaced workers and older people
The number of unemployment claims in the U.S. fell the week ending July 24 to 400,000. That’s a 24,000 drop. The decrease may suggest...
Back to Work: Manufacturing, construction, and the offshore wind industry
Opportunities in manufacturing, construction, and the offshore wind industry are some of the workforce options available around the U.S.
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An Alabama high school gives students pathways to careers and home...
In a once-thriving Alabama neighborhood, high school students are combining work-based learning in the construction and real estate trades with in-classroom courses with an...
Back to Work: Programs are using virtual reality to train workers
The number of first-time jobless claims remains high, but there was a bit of movement last week. New unemployment claims for the week ending...
Path to Pro boot camp: A pathway into the skilled trades
If you live in the metro Atlanta area and are interested in working in the construction trades, there is a recently launched five-day, remote...
Retooling construction industry training amid economic disruption
The construction industry, like all other sectors of the economy, is taking a beating during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The number of construction workers losing their...
Constructing a skilled worker pipeline
Three out of four construction companies will have job openings this year. Water and sewer construction projects, bridge and highway, schools and hospitals are...
HBI turns soldiers into skilled trades workers
Editor's Note: This article was originally published on Nov. 12, 2018.
Before he enlisted in the U.S. Army, Staff Sgt. John Pomelow’s dream was to...
Moving from incarceration into the workforce
Each year, more than nine million people who have served time in state or federal prison or county jails are released back into their...
Skilled labor shortage highlights the need for career pathways to construction...
During the financial crisis and Great Recession of the late 2000s, the Department of Labor estimates that the construction industry lost 2.3 million jobs....
