Tag Archives: Consortium for Worker Education

Green jobs, green city: a special report

Posted on 06. Jun, 2010 by Bernard L. Stein.

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The economy may be recovering, but you wouldn’t know it in Mott Haven, Melrose and Port Morris, where, officially, one of every five adults is unemployed, a number that overlooks many undocumented immigrants and ignores those who have given up on looking for work or taken part-time jobs because they can’t find full-time employment. But [...]

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Can $4 million paint Mott Haven green?

Can $4 million paint Mott Haven green?

Posted on 06. Jun, 2010 by Nick Loomis.

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Chances are you’ve heard it all before. • New York’s 16th Congressional District, which includes Mott Haven, Melrose and Port Morris, is the poorest in the country. • The Bronx has the highest unemployment rate in New York at 14.1%, and unemployment is worse still in the South Bronx. • The area is home to [...]

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Workers learn by doing in Project H.I.R.E.

Workers learn by doing in Project H.I.R.E.

Posted on 04. Jun, 2010 by Carla Candia.

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A brand-new duplex apartment in the University Heights section of the Bronx is ready for inspection. Equipped with bamboo floors, a ceramic kitchen and a spacious bedroom closet that would make more than one New Yorker jealous, it would rent for at least $2,000. Instead it will be demolished. And the construction workers who built [...]

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Grant promises unemployed 300 ‘green jobs’

Posted on 29. Jan, 2010 by Bernard L. Stein.

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The recipient of a $4 million federal grant is promising that 300 unemployed residents of Hunts Point, Longwood, Mott Haven, Melrose and Port Morris will find jobs under a new training program for “green” jobs. The Consortium for Worker Education will use the money to establish a Center for Environmental Workforce Training to teach both [...]

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