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North Central Wisconsin Workforce Development Board
WDA 6 - Workforce News Bulletin |
North Central WI Workforce Development Board Interim Executive Director, Jane Spencer (far left) poses with 2010 WIA Excellence Award Recipients. Award Recipients pictured second from left to right are: Partner of the Year, Tom Younger, Job Service; Provider of the Year, Alyssa Erb, CESA 5; Promoter of the Year, Dave Schaupp, Breaman Merrill Ford; Participant of the Year, Lucinda Richter of Mosinee; & Placement of the Year, Northcentral Technical College employees Al Fox, Lynn Dahlke, & Gale Powers.  | |
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WDA 6 - Monthly Workforce News Bulletin
Welcome to the North Central Wisconsin Workforce Development Board's October - 2010 issue of Workforce News Bulletin.
Inside Issue:
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 NCWWDB recently announced the recipients of its 2010 WIA Excellence Awards - Nominees were solicited throughout its nine-county region, for the following five categories: Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Participant, Partner, Promoter, Provider, and Placement of the Year. See entire announcement here. Back to top |
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 Tom Barrett's Plan for Creating Jobs for Wisconsin - Barrett's plan features ideas to address our economic future, and is built around 5 core principles to create jobs:
- Targeted tax cuts to help spur private sector job creation
- Jump-start job creation right now
- Put job creation in the Governor's office
- Overhaul and streamline the state's entire economic development toolkit to make it more efficient and effective
- Create a state venture capital fund
Download Tom Barrett's detailed jobs plan as a PDF. Back to top
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 Scott Walker's Plan to Make Wisconsin a Top Ten State for Job Creators - there are 6 things Walker's Job's Plan states will make Wisconsin economically competitive with other states. They are:
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 Talent Has No Boundaries: Workforce Diversity Includes People with Disabilities -Congress has designated October as National Disability Employment Awareness Month. This effort began in 1945, when Congress declared the first week in October as "National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week." In 1988, they expanded from a week to a month and changed the name. Read more here. Back to top |
 A major milestone! Job Center of Wisconsin has Posted More than 1 Million Job Openings - DWD Secretary Roberta Gassman recently announced over one million job openings have been posted to JobCenterOfWisconsin.com over the past two years. The online site was launched in September of 2008. Since then, a total of 1,013,060 job openings have been posted by more than 33,500 employers. Read entire release here. Back to top |
 At national workforce conference in Madison, over 25 states cite On-the-Job Training, & other programs that are growing skills, growing jobs & growing America - State workforce agency representatives stood in support of workforce programs such as On-the-Job Training, which this summer received $75 million in ARRA funds from DOL. These new funds will help thousands of dislocated workers across the country get trained and re-employed in the coming months. Read full release here. Back to top |
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August 2010, Wisconsin unemployment rate - 7.7% (unadjusted); 7.9% (seasonally adjusted)
August 2010 unemployment rate for our nine-county NCWWDB area: 8.1% (unadjusted); the highest being Lincoln with 9.8% unemployment
(6th highest in the state)
and the lowest being Portage with 6.9%
(53rd highest in the state)
There were 5 *WARN notices given in WDA 6 during the period of
January 1, 2010 thru September 15, 2010. Source WorkNet
*WARN is a required communication for those employers with 50 or more employees. Employers with fewer than 50 employees may have laid people off during this time.
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WIA Training Report
For the Program Year 2010 that started July 1, 2010 NCWWDB has 189 Youth, 277 Adults, and 920 Dislocated Workers enrolled in WIA Title 1 funded programs.
To date, 70 Adults have received an Opportunity Grant. Opportunity Grants are still available. Contact Jane Spencer at
WDA 6 Job Center Resource Calendar 
Fall Conferences
WETA Conference
An Employment Odyssey
October 20, 21, 22, 2010
Bridgewood Resort Hotel
1000 Cameron Way
Neenah, Wisconsin
NAWDP - 2010 Youth Development Symposium
Making the Transition to a Successful Future November 8-10, 2010, Sheraton Hotel and Towers
Chicago, Illinois Click HERE to Register Online
Recruitment & Retention Tools for Employers |
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