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“The hardest part about Friday was to see all those people there, and the tears were because they knew it was over; they go back to the life they had before,” said Yvette Ewing, executive director at The Community Works, a nonprofit that helps recruit candidates for the CEJA hubs. “The hardest part, I’ll be honest, is knowing that there’s no job at the end specific to clean energy.
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
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3 weeks of training . I bet they learned a lot . How to call in sick and il being discriminated against .
Tax dollars would have been better spent on fine arts education. Similarly, there’s no job at the end of that either. They could at least busk at CTA stations for spare change.
CEJA is money spent for nothing.
Aww.. after 23M/ year, all the heartfelt stories and training for non- existent jobs melts away into yet another pity party. I’m sure the schools and instructors pushing these unicorn fart pipe dreams are getting paid though. And it will continue to push out the most educated baristas and warehouse workers in the world.
I think I spotted a token white and a token Hispanic. Love the projects diversity
I guess the headline writer just couldn’t write it correctly and call it false hope.
Well, Mark – you know there has to be one of the Democratic elected officials in Springfield with a plan to get another prOgram started to address the lack of jobs in Equitable Energy, whatever the hell that is. This will be a prOgram that provides high salaries, no supervision or administration and no production of anything…but will provide a way to pay for more votes and launder tax payer money to the appropriate election funds or off shore accounts…same thing. After all…it’s Illinois.
Yup, we wrote that about CEJA even when it was just a draft bill.