Recently, we successfully placed a young single mom, “Maria”, in her first full-time professional job making $17 an hour, or over $35,000 a year. That’s the good news. The bad news is that we successfully placed a young single mom in her first full-time professional job making over $35,000 a year…
This Labor Day weekend, we celebrate work, the meaning of work, the promise of work, the potential of work. We celebrate workers who come from diverse backgrounds and who transform themselves and their colleagues through the way that they work. We celebrate employers who unlock the potential for dignity and self-sufficiency through the jobs they provide. We invite the whole workforce system to celebrate with us and to live out a lofty vision of work and calling…