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New State Funding For Initiative That Uses Online Portal To Assist Job Seekers

      Despite the existence of a number of workforce development programs, Springfield continues to have one of the highest poverty rates and lowest worker participation rates of any city in Massachusetts.

       Last fall, a coalition of more than 30 partners, including employers and educators, launched a new initiative called Springfield Works

        It features online technology to connect people with available jobs and skills training.  The program was recently awarded a $75,000 grant from the state. 

        WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill spoke with the initiative director Anne Kandilis.

The record-setting tenure of Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno. The 2011 tornado and its recovery that remade the largest city in Western Massachusetts. The fallout from the deadly COVID outbreak at the Holyoke Soldiers Home. Those are just a few of the thousands and thousands of stories WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill has covered for WAMC in his nearly 17 years with the station.
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