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Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate was 5.3 percent in September, down a tenth of a percentage point from August, according to numbers released Friday by the U.S. Department of Labor and Industry.

Source: WESA-FM

Source: US Conference of Mayors

More than 12,000 Allegheny County residents last year exhausted their unemployment benefits, and about one-fourth of adult dislocated workers in the county are at risk of exhausting their benefits Looking to give job seekers a leg up, the Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board is working to bring a national program to Pittsburgh to help long-term unemployed residents reconnect to the workforce. Known as Platform to Employment, the program, which began in southwest Connecticut in 2011, has shown to be effective, getting between 80 percent and 90 percent of participants re-employed following the eight-week program. Pittsburgh will be the 15th city to adopt P2E.

Source: Pittsburgh Business Times

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Ask any employer, and they’ll tell you young people often have a big problem at job interviews. “They’re first time in a job interview situation. They’re new. They’re nervous. They don’t know how to behave,” says Vera Krofcheck with the 3 Rivers Workforce Investment Board, a non-profit that brings job-seekers together with employers.

Source: KDKA-TV

Interns from the summer Learn and Earn program are paying it forward in a way, helping other young people prepare for their first work experience.

Source: Pittsburgh Business Times

The longer you are unemployed, the harder it is to find a job, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board announced Thursday a program geared specifically to the long-term unemployed will soon be available in Pittsburgh.

Source: WESA-FM

Caregiver training, retention and compensation are among the pressing issues facing a region that has among the highest percentages of elderly people in the country, health care experts said Thursday.

Source: Pittsburgh Business Times

What keeps Stephen Jackson up nights is how his decision to attend college may wind up hurting his mother.

Source: Pittsburgh Business Times

A troubling question plagued Kathy Clark this past spring: How do you find a job at 61 years old? Clark, a Squirrel Hill resident and former United Methodist Church pastor, lost her position as a charitable fundraiser in layoffs at a humanitarian aid organization. At first, with 36 years in nonprofit and faith-based sectors and two degrees, Clark felt optimistic she would find a comparable full-time position. Except that she didn't.

Source: Pittsburgh Tribune Review

As part of his work to combat the disparate effects of the “war on drugs,” Institute of the Black World founder Ron Daniels said he believes the Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion program can impact Black crime and policing’s “broken relationship with the community.”

Source: New Pittsburgh Courier

It's the last week of the Learn and Earn program, and Anthony Zabiegalski, a producer at Simcoach Games, is prepping his 26 interns to test out a video game they helped build. Over the last six weeks, the interns have worked alongside developers and designers.

Source: WESA-FM

In 2014, more than 1,300 young people applied for jobs in Pittsburgh’s Summer Youth Employment program, but there were only 500 positions available.

Source: Pittsburgh Business Times

What’s been dubbed “the sliver tsunami” is a national issue, with the oldest of the 75 million baby boomers — those born between 1946 and 1964 — set to turn 69 this year.

Source: Pittsburgh Business Times

Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto said Tuesday that he gets “a little emotional” when he talks about the city’s summer employment program for teenagers and young adults.

Source: WESA-FM

Brian White, a rising senior at Westinghouse High School in Homewood, spent part of Thursday morning teaching a software engineer and a game developer how to play the board game “Jobopoly.”

Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Pittsburgh is operating within its budget so far this year, and revenue is outpacing expenditures at a rate that will generate a $1 million to $5 million surplus, Controller Michael Lamb said Tuesday. Read more: http://triblive.com/news/adminpage/8695952-74/lamb-million-ahead#ixzz3hTkbAIRW Follow us: @triblive on Twitter | triblive on Facebook

Source: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Kenya Boswell, president of the BNY Mellon Foundation of SWPA and 3RWIB Youth Policy Council member, named a "Fast Tracker" by the Pittsburgh Business Times.

Source: Pittsburgh Business Times

Local leaders announced $1.1 million in STEM funding for paid internships benefiting low-income, at-risk youth at a meeting Downtown on Thursday.

Source: WESA-FM

Nearly $1.1 million in federal money will help expand a fledgling program in Allegheny County aimed at providing more summer jobs for young people, officials said Thursday.

Source: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Rashad Roberts loved lifeguarding at city pools, but it was tough paying bills on a salary of $19,400. Jermaine Chatman earned less than $20,000 annually working for a landscaping company, but his prison record dogged him when he applied unsuccessfully for something that paid more.

Source: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review