Filling Tennessee’s green job openings
Posted on November 19, 2009 at 8:34 am
The Tennessee Department of Labor & Workforce Development, the State Workforce Investment Board and MTSU’s Business and Economic Research Center have received a $765,340 grant from the U.S. Department of Labor to improve the matching of the state’s green jobs with workers.
The survey will focus on public and private interest in renewable transportation, sustainable agriculture, and Federal funding focused on the State’s burgeoning green economy. This survey will expand on prior green studies (Growing Green: the Potential for Green Job Growth in Tennessee 2008) by providing current estimates for the number of green jobs and green job vacancies within the 13 labor and workforce investment areas of Tennessee. A focus of the grant is to help workers affected by significant automotive-related restructurings connect to career pathways in green industries. Additionally, the grant will develop an enhanced online self-service labor exchange module to match green job seekers with respective employers.
All the DOL grants are here.
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Research firm nabs WIC contract
Posted on March 31, 2009 at 9:44 pmGreen Hills-based Edge Healthcare Research will survey a portion of the 150,000 people enrolled in Tennessee’s WIC program ahead of an overhaul later this year.
New federal guidelines to take effect October 2009 have modified the current supplemental food packages offered through the WIC Program, and the Tennessee Department of Health wants to ensure that WIC recipients have access to the foods they use which are covered under the new food package guidelines.
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