{"id":484988,"date":"2010-03-29T13:33:58","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T17:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/?p=15219"},"modified":"2010-03-29T13:33:58","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T17:33:58","slug":"on-the-job-hunt-philly-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/484988","title":{"rendered":"On The Job Hunt: Philly Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like many cities, Philadelphia is battling double-digit unemployment and rising poverty. \u00a0Many can only find part-time jobs which help put food on the table but may not \u00a0be enough to support families.<\/p>\n<p>City leaders decided to address this problem in a very specific way with a program called &#8220;Philly Works: Growing Neighborhood Jobs&#8221;, which aims to help under-employed seasonal part-time workers learn the skills they need to find stable full-time work.<\/p>\n<p>The pilot program is hiring and training 90-120 residents over the next 14 months, funded by $750,000 in mostly public money from grants and government programs including the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/embed.js?id=4128489&#038;w=400&#038;h=249\"><\/script><noscript>Watch the latest video at <a href=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/\">FoxNews.com<\/a><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>The participants are described as motivated and hard working people who may be handicapped by literacy issues, lack of computer skills, lack of a resume or interview experience, a criminal record or challenges in their personal lives.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Philly Works&#8221; pays them $12 an hour to sweep sidewalks on major city corridors, tidy up vacant lots, plant trees and do other &#8220;cleaning and greening&#8221; type jobs and spend 180 hours in the classroom learning computer programs, building resumes, tackling literacy issues and more.<\/p>\n<p>The city works with local employers to insure when candidates finish the six-month program, there are real jobs waiting for them.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Michael Nutter says &#8220;Philly Works&#8221; cuts thru red tape and helps people who sometimes &#8220;cannot get out of their own way&#8221; and &#8220;get their life in order&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A lot of it comes down to the individual&#8230;&#8221; Nutter says. \u00a0&#8220;They have to decide ultimately that they are ready. \u00a0And we think by the response that there are a lot of people that are ready.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Mayor says &#8220;it&#8217;s a winner all around&#8221; and hopes to keep it going when the current program ends in 14 months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like many cities, Philadelphia is battling double-digit unemployment and rising poverty. \u00a0Many can only find part-time jobs which help put food on the table but may not \u00a0be enough to support families. City leaders decided to address this problem in a very specific way with a program called &#8220;Philly Works: Growing Neighborhood Jobs&#8221;, which aims [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4752,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484988","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\/4752"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}