{"id":566957,"date":"2010-05-17T13:17:50","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T17:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c60fd53ef013480ef3b88970c"},"modified":"2010-05-17T13:17:50","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T17:17:50","slug":"daley-to-spend-25-million-from-parking-meter-lease-on-job-training-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/566957","title":{"rendered":"Daley to spend $25 million from parking meter lease on job training program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Posted by Hal Dardick<\/em> at 12:18 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Richard Daley this morning helped launch a new program &#8212; funded with $25 million in city money &#8212; to retrain unemployed workers so they can get full-time jobs in the technology based economy.<\/p>\n<p>The city plans to tap proceeds from the long-term lease of city parking meters to help fund the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldbusinesschicago.com\/chicago-career-tech\">Chicago Career Tech<\/a> program over the next three years, during which the city hopes to retrain thousands of people.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are no old businesses left,\u201d Daley said, after addressing the first 175-person class about to start in the program. \u201cThey are all changing through technology. And those that change survive. . . . We have a great work force, and we just have to give them the opportunities and the training and the retraining.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CNA, Microsoft, Northern Trust Bank, the Joyce Foundation, the United Way and other groups are providing support and services. The state Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity is providing a $300,000 grant.<\/p>\n<p>The program\u2019s participants range in age from 25 to 63, said Marie Lynch, its executive director. The average age is 46. All are city residents, earned between $25,000 and $75,000 at their previous jobs and have at least a GED.<\/p>\n<p>During the six month program, they will work six days a week: two days in the classroom, two days at job shadowing and two days of \u201cservice learning\u201d at not-for-profit groups.<\/p>\n<p>The next class, which starts in October, is expected to have twice as many students, Daley said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by Hal Dardick at 12:18 p.m. Mayor Richard Daley this morning helped launch a new program &#8212; funded with $25 million in city money &#8212; to retrain unemployed workers so they can get full-time jobs in the technology based economy. The city plans to tap proceeds from the long-term lease of city parking meters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3992,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566957","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\/3992"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}