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What's New
Skip to regional economy content box.Holyoke Community College Highlights DECE Graduate -- Click here to read HCC's article featuring one of the DECE graduates, Kathleen Stark. Read her success story and congratulations to all of the graduates and partners on your continued commitment to raise the quality of of the early childhood education field for the children and families in our community.
Youth Summer Jobs Article -- Click here to read Business West and Republican news articles on summer youth employment!
Precision Machining Training Program -- Click here to read more about this and other precision machining initiatives of the REB and to download the PMTP Replication Manual!
Hampden County FY11 Annual Plan -- Click here to read draft Plan submitted to the State.
Emerging Role of Workforce Boards -- Click here to read a brief entitled ""The Critical and Emerging Role of Workforce Investment Boards: How Federal Policy Can Incite Workforce Innovation", based on experiences of Executive Directors from local Workforce Investment Boards across the country, including our CEO Bill Ward, as convened by the Corporation for a Skilled Workforce.
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act -- Click here for updates on local Workforce Investment Act "stimulus" money planning.
Final Springfield Workforce Development Plan
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Regional Economy
Skip to relevant links content box.The Regional Employment Board will update this website with information and reports on our local economy, labor force, projected areas for job growth, and links to many other web sites with valuable economic and labor statistics.
- Critical Vacancy Data updated with Interactive Map -- click on link to Commonwealth Corporation website!
- New data report on youth indicators were prepared for our region and added as a link on this page -- click here!
- New sets of labor market development reports, as unveiled at our June 18th regional workforce conference, have been prepared for the region -- click here!
- For the State's two-page report that is published monthly for five geographic regions of MA and includes the latest labor force, claimant, and jobs data for the State and by Workforce Area, click here!
- For link to get a Community Economic Development "hot report" on Hampden County, click here!
- For an updated 2010 Hampden County Labor Market report, click here!
- To see updated 2008 specific job descriptions, their education and training requirements, wages and salaries, and more, click here!