by Web Admin | Aug 7, 2018 | DC Updates
Workers Hardest Hit By Recession Are Joining In Recovery
New York Times (August 3, 2018)
The unemployment rate for those without a high school diploma fell to 5.1 percent in July, the Labor Department reported Friday, the lowest since the government began collecting data on such workers in 1992. At the economy’s nadir in the summer of 2009, the unemployment rate for high school dropouts hit 15.6 percent, more than three times the peak unemployment rate for college graduates.
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July Jobs Report: Payrolls Rise 157,000 And Unemployment Rate Drops To 3.9%
Fortune (August 3, 2018)
Healthy consumer spending and business investment, supported by tax cuts and a bump in federal spending this year, are resulting in job gains that continue to be more than sufficient to accommodate population growth in the 10th year of the economic expansion. While the data mark a solid start to the quarter and should keep the Fed on track for an interest-rate hike in September, a widening trade war threatens to curb growth in the labor market.
“Right now, concerns about tariffs are just that: concerns,” said Michael Gapen, chief U.S. economist at Barclays Plc in New York. “There’s no evidence that businesses are changing the way that they’re hiring and spending.”
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DOJ, Labor Dept To Target Employers That ‘Discriminate’ Against Americans By Hiring Foreign Workers
The Hill (July 31, 2018)
The Departments of Justice (DOJ) and Labor announced an agreement Tuesday to work together in cracking down on companies that “discriminate” against U.S. workers by hiring foreign workers.
The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division and the Labor Department will start sharing information on employers, refer issues to the appropriate officials at each department and offer training to each other’s staff under the agreement.
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by Web Admin | Aug 1, 2018 | News & Updates
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Hispanic American Organization, Inc.
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Hispanic American Organization, Inc. was founded by Lupe Pearce in 1976 and Roberto Clemente Charter School in 2000 to assist Allentown’s growing Hispanic Community become more economically self-sufficient.
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Since 1971, SER Metro-Detroit has consistently maintained a high-performance record in the skills training and placement of consumers into unsubsidized employment in the private sector and in providing employers with a diverse, qualified workforce.
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Providing Affordable Housing and Social Services
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Since 1971, At SER Jobs For Progress, Inc. of San Joaquin Valley, we strive to help our community members throughout California acquire affordable housing and comprehensive management services.
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DONATE—Share the World of Opportunity. When you donate to SER National, you’re making an investment in someone’s future and that’s priceless.
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by Web Admin | Jul 25, 2018 | Affiliate News
Who we are
Welcome to Centro Latino! We are a community based non-profit that works with the Latino and Indigenous Native families. Learn more about our educational programs, Crisis intervention, family outreach services, Arts & Culture programming, or join our advocacy efforts that address the concerns and opportunities for our families.
Our Mission is to cultivate the advancement of the Latino and Indigenous communities by providing social services and educational programming while honoring heritage and culture through the Arts.
Services
Family Services
Advocacy – Provides information, support, and assists individuals and families in accessing community resources that best meet their needs. Advocates on behalf of clients to ensure adequate provisions of services.
- Domestic Violence and Victim of Crime Advocacy- Trained advocate will do crisis intervention and help navigate the legal system. Advocate will work with clients through out the entire process by providing safety planning, resources for housing or emergent needs, Therapy, support groups and continued case management till safety and security has been accomplished.
- Case Management – Provides comprehensive case planning, information, and linkages with other service providers: medical, housing, legal, DSHS…Case management services are designed to assist clients with meeting multiple needs over a longer period of time.
- Sexual Assault Support & Advocacy – Trained Sexual Assault advocates provide victims with immediate crisis intervention services, safety planning, assistance facilitating the paperwork for a protection order, linkages to emergency shelters, referrals to therapy, and a Spanish language victims’ support group. Call for more information.
- Orientation to the basic laws and systems in place within Pierce County and the state of Washington.
Assistance with Forms and Applications
- Applications for benefits (L&I, disability, insurance, DSHS)
- Section 8 and other housing/rental applications
- School Enrollment
Documents
Assistance with Document Translations
- Permission to travel letter with minor children
- Marriage Certficate
- Birth Certificates
- Guardianship Paperwork
- Additional translations as approved
* Notary Public (By appointment only. All clients must provide official proof of identification)
Parenting and Family Support
The Family Support Centers are part of a community effort to build strong neighborhoods and healthy families. The Partnership provides in-home support to parents and caregivers of children by highly trained Family Support Workers in order to create the best environment possible for a child to grow socially, emotionally, and behaviorally.
The Family Support Partnership focuses on strengthening child-parent relationships through the implementation of one of two international programs proven to be successful.
Employment Assistance
Along with an ample variety of job applications available from many companies in the King, Pierce and Thurston counties area, these are the main services offered by the Adult Employment & Training Department:
- Resume Preparation
- Cover letter preparation
- Job interview orientation
- Mock Interviews
- Job listings
- Computer use in job search and resume submission
- ESL Classes
- Computer Lab
Learn More Here
by Web Admin | Jul 25, 2018 | Affiliate News
The Latino Educational Fund (LEF) is a 501c3 nonprofit dedicated to helping Latino achieve their full potential through higher education, career development and financial independence. For over six years, LEF has sought to empower the communities in which it serves. Since our establishment in 2010, we firmly believe that providing tools in the form of jobs, affordable housing, loans, job training, financial literacy and scholarships is the most effective means of empowering people to obtain gainful employment and build a legacy for themselves and for their families.
Heberto M. Sanchez, founded LEF in 2010 to create a much-needed resource to the Latino students and young adults by providing information on college preparedness, career development, financial awareness, entrepreneurship, loans and affordable housing. LEF’s mission is to prepare people with the resources necessary for advance education and financial knowledge to strive for a better life. The overall goal of the organization is to improve the well-being of people through education and financial resources.
LEF services are design to improve access to education, provide job training and increase employability. LEF seeks to achieve this through scholarships, career development, job search assistance, job counseling and job placement, financial literacy courses, entrepreneur courses, loans, and affordable housing. In addition to its financial literacy and entrepreneur courses LEF also helps people build credit through unsecured micro loans. LEF is a SER Jobs for Progress National affiliate organization.
https://thelatinofund.org/
by Web Admin | Jul 19, 2018 | DC Updates
House Appropriations Committee Markup
July 12, 2018 (Caphill Partners)
The House Committee on Appropriations passed a fiscal year 2019 spending bill for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and Education on July 11, with a partisan 30-to-22 vote.
A majority of the amendments centered around the treatment and policies for children separated from their parents at the border. Amendments regarding apprenticeship, Pell Grant awards, and job training all failed. No change was made to SCSEP funding.
House Committee Approves Labor Department Funding Cuts
July 12, 2018 (Bloomberg)
The bill would give the DOL $12.1 billion in discretionary appropriations, an $88.8 million decrease from the current funding level that expires Sept. 30. The bill seeks increases in apprenticeship and veteran job training funding. Some proposed cuts would remove some jobs programs. The bill also would rescind $200 million in unused training funds allotted to the department this year.
NLRB funding would shrink by $12.8 million to $261.3 million. Both proposed DOL and NLRB reductions are less than the cuts that the Trump administration sought in its budget request.
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How Underemployment Is Affecting The Job Market
July 15, 2018 (NPR)
While unemployment has hit record lows, there’s another number that also gets a lot of attention — underemployment. Around 33 percent of college graduates are underemployed.
Underemployment measures the number of workers placed in jobs that are below their qualifications from a bachelor’s degree and beyond. But the effects can be different, depending on the field of work.
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Summer Jobs Disappearing, Changing
July 5, 2018 (Forbes)
As the percentage of teens in the summer workforce has declined, the kind of jobs they are filling are changing as well. Increasingly, summer teen workers are punching time clocks in hotels and restaurants and decreasingly in stores.
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