CareerForce marks Workforce Development Month

September is workforce development month in Minnesota, a time to highlight what CareerForce staff and partners do every day to help connect people who need to work with the employers who need them. 

This September, these workforce development professionals throughout the state will continue helping Minnesotans whose enhanced unemployment benefits are expiring.  

Approximately 100,000 Minnesotans are expected to lose those enhanced benefits, which were established by the federal government to help people weather the pandemic. 

There are many factors why people have had challenges in finding work, from COVID-19 concerns to lack of child care to mismatches between available jobs and a person’s skillset, location or scheduling requirements. 

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