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For MIssissippi County, Arkansas, becoming an ACT Work Ready Community was about making a good situation even better.
If economic development was a boxing match, you'd be hard-pressed to find a better pound-for-pound fighter than Nebraska.
For the second year in a row, the state won the governor's cup award from Site Selection magazine for being the state with the most economic development projects per capita.
Nebraska had 110 economic development projects in 2017, or a little more than two a week. That was up from 101 in 2016.
One year in, a program meant to better connect job applicants with employers is more than halfway to its goal. Still, organizers say the program needs more employers to participate.
The Heartland Work Ready Initiative, which began in March 2017, aims to help area job seekers earn the nationally recognized ACT National Career Readiness Certificate , a standardized way for job applicants to show potential employers their skills.
St. Louis County is pleased to announce that it has achieved ACT Certified Work Ready Community (CWRC) status. States, counties and economic development agencies across the United States have adopted the ACT Work Ready Communities program as a means of providing employers evidence of a skilled workforce.
The staff at the Mesa County Workforce Center in Grand Junction set some goals for its mission to match people looking for jobs with businesses looking for applicants.
A job-ready workforce, lower cost of living, premier freight assets, growth potential and a lack of traffic congestion compared to other U.S. cities are among the top reasons given by several companies in the logistics industry as to why they have established businesses operations in the St. Louis, Missouri region. Representatives from Procter & Gamble, DNJ Intermodal Services, LLC, and Giltner St. Louis participated in a recent panel discussion hosted by the St. Louis Regional Freightway.
Two programs in Mississippi County are designed to bring more jobs to Northeast Arkansas. Governor Asa Hutchinson went Blytheville Wednesday for the announcements, which center around the county’s growing steel industry.
All four Delta Regional Authority counties in the Meramec Region, Crawford, Dent, Phelps and Washington, are now Missouri Certified Work Ready Communities (CWRC), thanks to a workforce development grant from the Delta Regional Authority (DRA).
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