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Canadian clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson shared this disturbing news today: BREAKING: the Ontario College of Psychologists @CPOntario has demanded that I submit myself to mandatory social-media communication retraining with their experts for, among other crimes, retweeting @PierrePoilievre and criticizing @JustinTrudeau and his political allies. — Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) January 3, 2023 “Mandatory social media communication retraining” sure sounds a lot like “re-education”. The announcement caught the eye of Twitter owner Elon Musk: !! — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 3, 2023 It's worse than you think in Canada @elonmusk. Regulated professionals are now terrified into silence by their respective...

Communities in nine U.S. states that have been hard-hit by coal layoffs are being promised more than 3,000 jobs in several industries through a multimillion-dollar federal grant. Officials for the Appalachian Regional Commission and other agencies announced the 29 projects totaling nearly $39 million Wednesday at a news conference in Huntington, West Virginia. The investments are expected to create or retain more than 3,400 jobs in agriculture, health care, manufacturing, technology and other industries. The projects are intended to help communities in Texas and in eight Appalachian states: Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. …

From the NY Times, White House Plans Job Training Partnership (bold by me): As part of efforts to address record-high levels of long-term unemployment, President Obama plans to announce a new national public-private partnership on Monday to help retrain workers for jobs that are in demand. The national program is a response to frustrations from both workers and employers who complain that public retraining programs frequently do not provide students with employable skills. This new initiative is intended to help better align community college curriculums with the demands of local companies. “The goal is to encourage community colleges and other...

... Tens of thousands of laid-off workers [...] have turned to retraining as a lifeline. Yet for all the popularity of these government-financed programs, there are questions about whether they actually work, even as President Obama’s stimulus plan directs $1.4 billion more to retraining and other services for people who have lost their jobs. In Michigan, where the unemployment rate in May was 14.1 percent, the nation’s highest, 78,000 people are enrolled in the state’s No Worker Left Behind program and 7,800 are on the waiting list. At the Michigan Works job center here, where Mr. Hutchins applied for retraining...

Downsized and depressed, Leigh Hoes was approaching 50 and wondering what to do with the rest of her work life. Then one day, as she leafed through a course catalog that had arrived in the mail from Richland College in Dallas, the idea came to her. Why not work in a pharmacy, dispensing prescriptions? After all, she thought, a health care career had always appealed to her, the job was fairly recession-proof, and she could train for it in just one year. Like many other baby boomers, the food technology specialist turned to a community college for help in changing...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 6, 2006 – The decision to pull an Iraqi police brigade off the streets for intensive retraining is part of the Iraqi government’s overall reform plan and will improve the professionalism and confidence within the national police, the U.S. general in charge of training Iraqi police said today. The Iraqi Ministry of Interior announced Oct. 3 that the 8th Brigade, 2nd National Police, was being recalled to go through intensive training in anti-militia and anti-sectarian violence operations, due to poor performance and possible complicity with sectarian violence. “I really believe that the decision to withdraw the 8th Brigade...

One of my readers is an underemployed 59-year-old man from among us here in the South Suburbs. Call him Harry. He works in information technology. Slowly and wearily, he says: "Once you get past 50, I swear, it gets tough, it gets really tough." For instance, Harry applied for a job with a city of Chicago department that operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week. He got an offer for some contract work. There were no benefits, but it was a paying job. A woman from the city called him one Monday morning and wanted to know if...

My husband jokes that I should have been an electrician. In this age of outsourcing and job insecurity, the trades seem to us to be the best professions of the future. To be sure, most aren't glamorous and are often physically demanding. But a number seem to have financial security and stability, and their job portability doesn't hurt, either. Many of us white-collar employees don't get to choose where we will live; we must go wherever our employer requires us. Many folks in the trades can command a good income, choose their own hours, and put down roots in a...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. Wichita — Home foreclosures in aviation-dependent Wichita have soared in the past two years as more families struggle to make ends meet in this hard-hit Midwest manufacturing community. On average, between 30 and 40 Wichita families each week are losing their homes at sheriff's auctions in the Sedgwick County Courthouse. Extended unemployment benefits and family savings have run out for thousands of laid-off aircraft workers and others who still are having a hard time finding jobs two years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks triggered massive layoffs in Wichita's four...

<p>GLOVER, Mo. - The two stacks of Doe Run's lead smelter towering over the fall-dappled Ozark hills soon will stand useless, sentries from an era past.</p> <p>Around Dec. 1, the Glover smelter will become the latest monument to the long, painful decline of mining in Missouri, a state explored and settled by Spanish and French miners more than 200 years ago.</p>

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use.CHARLOTTE, N.C. - State officials assured anxious Kannapolis-area leaders that if the beleaguered Pillowtex Corp. closes its plants, the state will send teams to quickly give workers access to services and money. The teams would set up one-stop centers where workers could sign up for services such as job-training classes at community colleges, state Department of Commerce officials told the leaders Tuesday during a meeting in Raleigh. Employment Security Commission and social services staffers would help workers apply for state aid, subsidized health insurance and 26 extra weeks of unemployment benefits available...