If you live in Michigan and are either out of a job, about to be out of a job, or in a job, but have a family income less than $40,000, you are in luck.\u00a0 Michigan\u2019s \u201cNo Worker Left Behind,\u201d program is helping the unemployed and underemployed learn the skills they need to succeed in a state economy that is rapidly transforming a lot of manual labor into more computerized fields.\u00a0 How?\u00a0 By offering free tuition- up to $10,000 over two years at any Michigan community college, university, or other approved training program.<\/p>\n
Susan DiVanni is taking advantage of the program, and she says, \u201cYou have two schools of thought when you lose your job: you can either sit and cry about it, or you can do something about it.\u201d\u00a0 Dale Newman is learning to weld because he was laid off after 26 years as a parts manager at a GM plant.\u00a0 He said he has no prior welding experience, but the \u201cNo Worker Left Behind\u201d program is helping him get back to work.\u00a0 He isn\u2019t alone: in the first two years of the program, about 110,000 people have gone back to school under the program and of its graduates, 72% have jobs so far.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo Worker Left Behind,\u201d has been extremely popular in the Great Lakes State, which has had the nation\u2019s highest unemployment rate for much of the last four years, and whose 14.6% unemployment is currently America\u2019s highest.\u00a0 The program initially outgrew expectations, and hit 100,000 enrollees back in November- ten months sooner than projected.\u00a0 To keep the program alive, the state issued emergency grants, and now the state seems to be adjusting well to the added demand- even with a waiting list of 16,000 eager residents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
If you live in Michigan and are either out of a job, about to be out of a job, or in a job, but have a family income less than $40,000, you are in luck.\u00a0 Michigan\u2019s \u201cNo Worker Left Behind,\u201d program is helping the unemployed and underemployed learn the skills they need to succeed in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4652,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4652"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}