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Category: In the News

Austin to consider criteria for expanding high-quality, affordable child care programs

Austin city officials have outlined new criteria on the table to help expand affordable child care services citywide.

In a memo released Monday, city leaders released a list of proposed criteria for Austin City Council to consider. Back in early December, council approved a resolution centered on creating affordable, high-quality child care services.

As part of its efforts, city leaders collaborated with the Success By Six coalition members and the Early Childhood Council to help inform recommendations. Additional input from Workforce Solutions Capital Area staff, the city’s Economic Development Department, Financial Services Department – Real Estate and the Housing and Planning Department were also incorporated.

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May 2, 2023
United Way provides resources for affordable child care in Central Texas

Child care in Central Texas can be hard to find – and affordable child care is even harder to locate. But United Way of Greater Austin is helping connect people to resources they can afford.

United Way is a nonprofit that has a community-wide coalition that networks to find high-quality child care, as well as resources to afford it. This network is something that has had a major impact on local providers and local families.

The nonprofit has its Connect ATX call line that helps parents navigate resources like the Workforce Solutions child care program, federally-funded head-start programs through Child Inc., public schools and Pre-K programs.

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April 28, 2023
Insight: Hire Local Summit

Video: Tamara Atkinson, CEO of Workforce Solutions Capital Area, gives insight on employment in the area to KXAN.

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April 21, 2023
Business leaders eye contract, job opportunities from $25B in transportation projects

With $25 billion in road, rail and airport infrastructure projects on tap for Austin over the next decade-plus, business leaders are starting to shape how the regional economy and its workforce can get the most benefit from the far-reaching changes in local transportation.

The demands and opportunities for Austin businesses of all sizes, and the need to provide thousands of construction and other workers for years at a time, were among the central topics of last week’s Regional Mobility Summit hosted by the Austin Chamber of Commerce.

Greg Canally, executive director of Austin Transit Partnership, said his organization is already working with Workforce Solutions Capital Area and other local resources that are in place to train area residents.

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April 17, 2023
Austin’s leisure and hospitality industry booming, 13.4% increase from last year

Amber Warne is the Director of Upskilling and Advancement at Workforce Solutions Capital Area. She said the leisure and hospitality industry had the greatest regional job growth over the past year.

“The Austin metros leisure and hospitality industry grew 1,300 jobs from January to February. So this makes up about half of all jobs added since last month,” Warne said. “Since last year, the leisure and hospitality industry added 13,400 jobs, which is a 13.4% growth.”

Warne said as of April 2022, the industry had already regained all of the previous jobs lost from the pandemic.

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March 30, 2023
Indeed laying off 15% of staff, around 2,200 people

Jessica Camarillo is the Director of Technology Partnerships with Workforce Solutions Capital Area. She said tech companies have been making cuts after a hiring boom the past couple of years.

“That growth is either plateauing or slowing down. A little bit of a course correction, as far as the size of company and the size of growth that they were expecting in the next five years,” Camarillo said.

Still, Camarillo said there’s no shortage of opportunity for tech talent locally.

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March 23, 2023
Cultivating Austin Talent with Workforce Solutions Capital Area CEO Tamara Atkinson

Tamara Atkinson, CEO of Workforce Solutions Capital Area, delves into the role the organization plays in shaping the future of Austin’s workforce. We’ll explore how Workforce Solutions Capital Area supports the local workforce, what is the state of the talent market today, and how the region is balancing the constant shifts of supply and demand for labor and skills.

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March 21, 2023
Austin’s job market is confusing. Here’s what to know.

It’s a confusing job market in Austin. Sizeable layoffs are happening, but other companies are in expansion mode.

Recent work reductions include security contract firm Security Specialists Inc., a California-based company that is cutting 240 Austin jobs. The company’s clients have included big tech names, including Google, Facebook and Apple.

Meanwhile, Israeli-based software company Wix.com is cutting 100 jobs here and dozens more in other U.S. cities. Wix, which is based in Tel Aviv, sells cloud-based web development services.

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March 20, 2023
Alianza para crear y promover empleos de movilidad

Los proyectos de Project Connect, el plan aprobado por votación en 2020 para ampliar y mejorar la red de transporte público para el Centro de Texas, crearán miles de nuevos empleos, incluso diferentes a los existentes actualmente, en los próximos diez años.

Para entender la próxima necesidad y suplirla conforme vaya surgiendo, Austin Transit Partnership (ATP) y Workforce Solutions Capital Area se unieron para crear la primera alianza regional de fuerza laboral del sector industrial de movilidad y un plan de acción para el desarrollo de esos puestos de trabajo.

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March 9, 2023
$300,000 to help study employment needs for Austin’s mass transit expansion

A Workforce Mobility Industry Sector Partnership was announced Friday between Austin Transit Partnership (ATP) and Workforce Solutions Capital Area (WFS).

“The purpose of this Agreement is to support the creation of the region’s first Workforce Mobility Industry Sector Partnership that includes the development and implementation of a construction workforce plan for the construction of Project Connect, which was approved by the voters of the City at the November 3, 2020, special election,” the Scope of Agreement shows.

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March 4, 2023