Some states train jobless for post-pandemic workforce
Aaron Huntley quit a job as a fast food manufacturer for training as a welder.
Renato Queiroz used to be a catering manager for a hotel in Newport, Rhode Island, a historic town known for its yachts and Gilded Age mansions. “I dealt with a lot of weddings,” he said recently.
Then the coronavirus pandemic hit, and Queiroz, 31, decided to quit the floundering hospitality industry and try something new.
He enrolled in a free community college course that trains people to use chemical processing equipment. Now he’s looking for manufacturing jobs and plans to earn a bachelor’s degree. “Going through this program opened up a different world for me,” he said.
Clients line up outside the Mississippi Department of Employment Security WIN Job Center in Pearl, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
PHILADELPHIA (CN) An appellate panel appeared divided Tuesday on the government’s effort to deny pandemic-related assistance to low-income households who have already maxed out food stamps.
In Pennsylvania, where the case is underway, the effort would keep emergency funding off limits to some 40% of people who get SNAP benefits, short for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
The Department of Agriculture took the position last year when it was directed by Congress as part of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act to provide states with extra money for low-income households in need of emergency assistance.
Mississippiâs extended unemployment benefits end Mississippiâs extended unemployment benefits have ended, leaving a gap for the thousands of residents still without a job because of the pandemic. (Source: WBRC) By Sharie Nicole | January 6, 2021 at 10:01 AM CST - Updated January 6 at 12:50 PM
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Mississippiâs extended unemployment benefits have ended, leaving a gap for the thousands of residents still without a job because of the pandemic.
The unemployment âExtended Benefitsâ (EB) program ended the week of December 19, 2020.
Mississippiâs unemployment level no longer meets the requirements to continue the EB period. As a result, Mississippi âtriggered offâ EB with the week ending December 19, 2020.