For the first time in a long time, Karl Ely figured he had pretty much everything he needed. Ely moved to Portland from Philadelphia several decades ago. The aspiring artist worked as a line cook and ...

Bill Taylor is a San Francisco chef who is facing a dramatically increased demand for his services as a result of the recession. But that’s not necessarily good news. Taylor is program manager for a ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Stone Soup PDX prepares about 1700 meals a week for delivery to people in homeless shelters and day centers. As part of their operation, they get $300,000 from Multnomah County ...

Latino nonprofit COPAL Minnesota is scrambling, trying to save a building project to support its job training program after two key government grants were cut. Dozens of other nonprofits providing ...

WASHINGTON — A dozen bills for sustaining and improving basic programs that help veterans obtain housing, jobs and wheelchair-accessible vehicles were presented at a hearing Wednesday of the House ...

At the best job skills and education programs, students experience hands-on job training, access to workplace technology, and barrier-breaking services that clear the path to successful employment.

The barbecue smoke is already rising at 7 a.m. on a hot day outside a former gas station in East Austin. Sherman Haywood is cooking up chicken, brisket and sausage for anyone in the neighborhood who ...

The Trump administration is planning to close 120 Job Corps training sites across the country in a matter of weeks, taking away job training and on-site housing for many of its 25,000 students, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Federal cuts and rising costs are forcing the elimination of job programs in western Washington that help pull people out of ...

Emerge and the sheriff’s office have expanded an 18-month-old commercial driver’s license training course offered to ...