At the office Employment Specialist works at in Portland, OR, we are seeing twice the number of visitors that we did last fall, and workshop attendance has risen almost as much.
Reports from around the country signal that this is not isolated to one office:
Workforce Center Sees Increase in Job Seekers (Beaumont, TX)
Workforce center swamped with jobseekers - but not jobs (Mesa, CO)
In other areas, workforce systems are starting to see clearer plans for stimulus money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act:
Maine gets $12.8 million for work programs
Regional job centers to get federal funds
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