WORCESTER – State Sen. Harriette L. Chandler, D-Worcester, and several other lawmakers have filed a bill aimed at alleviating food insecurity at public colleges and universities in the state.
“An Act establishing the Massachusetts Hunger-Free Campus Initiative” includes steps like creating a hunger prevention task force, developing student meal credit-sharing programs, and establishing emergency funds for students in need of financial support. It also would provide funding to help schools implement those measures. Access to food is a fundamental survival need and all students deserve a hunger-free campus. Unfortunately, food insecurity and hunger are daily struggles for some Massachusetts college students, many of whom are already saddled by loan debt and the stress of schoolwork,” said Chandler. “This bill seeks to empower students and colleges to address food insecurity together and to chart a path towards hunger-free campuses statewide.”
WORCESTER – The Trustees of Clark University was one of two Massachusetts recipients of eight-figure awards in the latest funding round of the U.S. Department of Labor’s H-1B One Workforce Grant Program.
The grants, which total $145 million, are intended to help train workers for jobs in industries like information technology, advanced manufacturing and transportation.
“The U.S. Department of Labor is challenging communities to think as ‘One Workforce’,” Assistant Secretary of Labor for Employment and Training John Pallasch said in a statement. “In a post-coronavirus world, it is critical that local organizations think as one instead of independent parts of a process. Our goal is to create seamless community partnerships to build career pathways for local job seekers.”