Tag Archives: Consortium for Worker Education
Green jobs, green city: a special report
Posted on 06. Jun, 2010 by Bernard L. Stein.
The economy may be recovering, but you wouldn’t know it in Mott Haven, Melrose and Port Morris, where, officially, one of every five adults is unemployed, a number that overlooks many undocumented immigrants and ignores those who have given up on looking for work or taken part-time jobs because they can’t find full-time employment. But [...]
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Can $4 million paint Mott Haven green?
Posted on 06. Jun, 2010 by Nicholas Loomis.
Federal funds aim to build on grassroots training programs Chances are you’ve heard it all before. New York’s 16th Congressional District, which includes Mott Haven, Melrose and Port Morris, is the poorest in the country. The Bronx has the highest unemployment rate in New York at 14.1%, and unemployment is worse still in the South [...]
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Workers learn by doing in Project H.I.R.E.
Posted on 04. Jun, 2010 by Carla Candia.
College for construction crew teaches green building A brand-new duplex apartment in the University Heights section of the Bronx is ready for inspection. Equipped with bamboo floors, a ceramic kitchen and a spacious bedroom closet that would make more than one New Yorker jealous, it would rent for at least $2,000. Instead it will be [...]
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Grant promises unemployed 300 'green jobs'
Posted on 29. Jan, 2010 by Bernard L. Stein.
The recipient of a $4 million federal grant is promising that 300 unemployed residents of Hunts Point, Longwood, Mott Haven, Melrose and Port Morris will find jobs under a new training program for “green” jobs. The Consortium for Worker Education will use the money to establish a Center for Environmental Workforce Training to teach both [...]
