Former Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s No Worker Left Behind program was a wildly ambitious effort to retrain more than 100,000 laid-off or low-income workers for new jobs as the state’s manufacturing base imploded. Although the $500 million program faced criticism for its effectiveness during its three-year run between 2007 and 2010, a new survey has found that […]
No Worker Left Behind
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Formula for turning jobless into employed remains elusive
Five years after she entered Michigan’s No Worker Left Behind retraining program, Macomb County resident Lori Wingert is still grateful. She lost her job teaching preschool children of Ford Motor Co. employees when the automaker shut its child development center. She was among the first participants in 2007 in the program, which paid for Wingert’s […]