The Southwest Washington Workforce Development Council (SWWDC) is offering $30,000 in hiring incentives to Clark, Cowlitz, and Wahkiakum County employers in an effort to spur hiring by Jun. 30 of the long-term unemployed. The hiring incentive, called the On-the-Job Training (OJT) Program, is designed to help offset training costs incurred ...
Unemployment eased slightly in Washington State during 2011, moving from 9.2 percent at the year’s midpoint to 8.6 percent at the end of the year. The latest figures released Thursday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that in the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro metropolitan statistical area the ratio was a little ...
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