By Jami Gibson I recently watched the documentary Rich Hill, a 2014 Sundance Film Festival award-winning film that depicts the lives of three teenage boys and their families living in rural Missouri. The town, Rich Hill, was once a thriving coal-mining town in the...
By Dean Whittaker This question was addressed in one of the more interesting presentations at the IEDC Leadership Summit in West Palm Beach this week. Corey Johns with Connected Tennessee discussed their program, Digital Work, in which they are training or re-training...
By Saurav Rajbhandari The everyday commute varies among individuals due to differences in the time required to reach the workplace, the means of transportation, and the condition of the physical infrastructure. All of these factors play a major role in determining the...
If you missed our live webinar on March 26th, we have the recording available! Sara Dunnigan leads our panel of economic and workforce development experts as they teach us about WIOA, the federal regulation impacting these two sectors, and what states are at the...
By Dean Whittaker This month we hosted a webinar titled: Economic & Workforce Development: Meeting the Needs of Employers. Our panel consisted of Sara Dunnigan, Executive Director, Virginia Board of Workforce; Beth Kuhn, Commissioner, Kentucky Department of...