Wednesday marked the start of an initiative aimed at providing training and job placement to Milwaukee residents, connecting them in part to jobs in construction and other skilled trades.

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By Sean Ryan The city of Milwaukee has nailed down the money it needs to start a more than $1 million new program to train people to build. The program, called the Milwaukee Builds Partnership, will recruit unemployed city residents ...

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By Sean Ryan [email protected] Four hundred does not go into 20, no matter how optimistic the math. That was the harsh reality for the 400 unemployed people who attended a series of Milwaukee Area Workforce Investment Board meetings in December ...

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Sean Ryan [email protected] People who train workers in the construction trades worry their  program graduates will suffer if development does not recuperate before stimulus money runs out. The city of Milwaukee is getting money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment ...

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