“Jobs, Yes. Green-Collar Ones, No.” plus 3 more

Jobs, Yes. Green-Collar Ones, No.
They will come - so Brumby to build in the bush
Colleges not training students for careers that are growing
State's jobs picture is 'pretty much treading water'

Posted: 15 Jun 2010 06:54 PM PDT

The green economy is growing, but it's still an uphill climb for many green-collar trainees. by Puck Lo Medardo Sarmiento, a 49-year-old Richmond resident with a serious demeanor and sparkling brown eyes, wants a green-collar job. He's taking classes four days a week in Hayward to get his electrician trainee card, and working part-time for Richmond Build a city-run, stimulus-funded, sixteen ...

They will come - so Brumby to build in the bush

Posted: 15 Jun 2010 01:28 PM PDT

FOUR hundred public service jobs will be lost to Melbourne and moved to regional Victoria as part of a state government plan to ease population pressures in the capital and encourage more businesses to move to the country.

Colleges not training students for careers that are growing

Posted: 15 Jun 2010 01:14 PM PDT

The United States economy is in serious danger from a growing mismatch between the skills that will be needed for jobs being created and the educational backgrounds (or lack thereof) of would-be workers. That is the conclusion of a mammoth analysis of jobs data being released today by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce.

State's jobs picture is 'pretty much treading water'

Posted: 15 Jun 2010 10:53 AM PDT

Washington state gained jobs for the third straight month in May, but most of the new jobs were temporary Census workers.