Broward College gets federal money to place workers in manufacturing jobs
Broward College will receive more than $4 million in federal grants to support training and placement of workers in manufacturing and high generation jobs. The school will receive $3.2 million of a $11.996 million grant for community colleges to accelerate training and placement of skilled workers into high-technology jobs.this systemm is designed to assist people […]
College becoming unaffordable to Middle Class
Many Florida families have been paying up to 25 percent of median income for public in-state college costs — out of reach for some middle-class parents who have taken recent pay cuts or lost jobs, according to a new study. Some South Florida families are paying even more — plunking down what amounts to about […]
Out of a job, and into a new, dismal life
Veteran banker Emmanuel Charles uses the library now to check his email since he can’t afford Internet service himself. He drives a Mercedes, but one with 250,000 miles on it. He lost his job as a branch manager in 2009 amid a global banking meltdown and has burned through almost all of his cash since […]