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CLEVELAND — Boosting the workforce to where it was pre-pandemic continues to be a challenge for industries nationwide. Data from the National Women’s Law Center said in November, the women’s labor force . . .

While Northeast Ohio went through a spike in the unemployment rate during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, just as the rest of the country did, people in the region . . .

An employer research study has been commissioned by the ConxusNEO Board of Directors to understand employer experience in recruiting and retaining talent since the onset of the pandemic.  In partnership . . .

SOUTH AKRON — Akron Public Schools (APS) and Acme Fresh Market have partnered to form the Acme Fresh Market Academy of Innovation and Industry at Kenmore-Garfield High School, located at . . .

Akron is among eight American cities awarded a national grant this month to tackle economic disparities that experts say widened along racial lines during the pandemic. The National League of . . .

WASHINGTON, D. C. - In addition to touting the “dignity of work” on the campaign trail, U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown spends some of his summers touting the dignity of manufacturing . . .

There are strong signs that the economy in Northeast Ohio as well as the rest of the United States is recovering from the damage of the COVID-19 pandemic. And those . . .

At the April meeting of the Governor’s Executive Workforce Board, Gov. Mike DeWine and Lt. Gov. Jon A. Husted challenged us to extend In-Demand Jobs Week (running through Friday) to In-Demand Jobs Year. Why? . . .

Count Ashlea Hyde among the Akron Children's Hospital employees who got a larger paycheck when the hospital in late 2019 boosted its minimum pay rate to $15 an hour. Hyde currently . . .

Funding supports collaboration between businesses, education & training providers Lt. Governor Jon Husted, in his capacity as Director of the Governor’s Office of Workforce Transformation, today announced that 12 workforce . . .