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Stephanie Yu, Public Assets Institute State of Working Vermont Report 2023 03/12/2024

CCTV's Bobby Lussier interviews Stephanie Yu, Executive Director of Public Assets Institute about the State of Working Vermont Report from 2023.

From the report: "As in previous years, this report uses data from the U.S. Census—primarily one-year estimates from the American Community Survey—as indicators of Vermonters’ well-being. It also relies on data from the Vermont Department of Labor, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, and other sources. With Census indicators, we compare data from 2019, the most recent year unaffected by the Covid pandemic, with 2022 data, the most recent available. Where 2023 data are available from other sources, we have included them. The American Community Survey did not publish state-level estimates for 2020. And labor market statistics were hard to interpret as businesses closed and reopened. But by 2022 the data appear to reflect real trends rather than short-term, anomalous changes. This report also looks at how Vermont has been doing relative to other states. Where comparisons are useful, the report provides Vermont’s national rankings. A ranking of 1 is the best, with 50 being the worst."

Health Care Today: Workplace Violence with Dr. Benjamin Smith and State Senator Brian Collamore 10/20/2023

Host Louis Meyers, MD, interviews Dr. Benjamin Smith, ER Physician at Central Vermont Medical Center, and State Senator Brian Collamore. The three discuss violence in healthcare - particularly towards healthcare workers - and how the state legislature has gotten involved.

Education and Enrichment for Everyone: Labor in the Food System 09/29/2023

Teresa Mares, PhD, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director for the Graduate Program in Food Systems at UVM, discusses the ins and outs of labor in the food system, from farms to food service.

For more information visit: eeevermont.org

Essential at Work and Home: Women and COVID-19 09/13/2021

VCW Director Cary Brown incorporates women’s unpaid labor and caregiving roles and then addresses the pandemic's impact to women’s workforce participation, closing with policy solutions for recovery. Part of the UVM Larner College of Medicine’s Gender Equity Initiative Education Series through the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Other videos in this series can be found at med.uvm.edu/diversityinclusion/videos.

Find Pathways to Promising Careers (and Funding) in 2021 10/22/2020

McClure Foundation Senior Philanthropic Advisor Carolyn Weir and Mathew Barewicz, the Vermont Department of Labor's Economic & Labor Market Information Chief, speak with CCTV's Lauren-Glenn Davitian.

The COVID-19 virus continues to have a major impact on Vermont’s workforce. For many, especially in the hospitality and food service sectors, the work they were doing is gone. For others, this pause for reflection has them thinking about new career paths.

With unemployment rates still higher than they were before the pandemic, the Vermont Department of Labor and the McClure Foundation want Vermonters to know:

That great jobs are available and will continue to be available across a variety of career fields
That short-term career training programs can help people access many of these jobs
And that philanthropy is helping to make some of the career training programs it considers “best bets” for landing a promising job even more affordable for Vermonters in 2021

For current and future jobseekers willing to invest in training and/or education after high school, it is clear: promising employment opportunities are already available throughout Vermont for people of all interests and backgrounds.

Pathways to Promising Careers is a revised list of the top high-pay, high-demand jobs projected for Vermont over the next 10 years—and the education/training needed to obtain them. Using the most recent data, the McClure Foundation partnered with the Vermont Department of Labor to identify 60-plus jobs, which are each expected to pay at least $22/hour median wage and to have at least 220 openings over the next decade.

More information about job prospects may be found here: https://mcclurevt.org/most-promising-jobs

This new brochure and online resource will be an important tool for guiding students' college and career choices as well as for adults looking to switch fields.

For organizations and education institutions that connect Vermonters with the training and education needed to fill these jobs, the McClure Foundation is offering funding to support training programs.

FOCUS: Using Technology to Support Trafficking Survivors 03/11/2019

Champlain College Professor Duane Dunston is developing a mobile app, YHAV (You Have a Voice), to help bridge the communication barrier with identifying trafficking victims and survivors.

In Part 3 of our series, Dunston talks about his experience of learning about slavery for sex and labor when he was a young teacher in Thailand. He learned how impoverished men, women, and children were forced into slavery and then he decided to do something about it which has resulted in his YHAV app which offers access in over 30 languages.

FOCUS: Human Trafficking - Its Context and Its Effect in Vermont Part 2 01/24/2019

Host Margaret Harrington talks with Deputy Compact Administrator Trissie Casanova (Department for Children and Families), Detective Corporal Donald Demar (Chittenden Unit for Special Investigations), and Peer Advocate Counselor Kimberly Colville (VT Center for Independent Living) on the multi-layered problem of human trafficking.

For more information, please visit: cusi-vt.org/contact-us/

McClure Foundation Training: Pathways to Promising Careers 01/18/2019

McClure Foundation Senior Philanthropic Advisor Carolyn Weir and Mathew Barewicz, the Vermont Department of Labor’s Economic & Labor Market Information Chief, are Lauren-Glenn Davitian’s guests to share these latest findings and an updated online resource.

Weir also talks about grants currently available for programs that connect Vermonters with these training and education pathways. Pathways to Promising Careers is a revised list of the top high-pay, high-demand jobs projected for Vermont over the next 10 years—and the education/training needed to obtain them. Using the most recent data, the McClure Foundation partnered with the Vermont Department of Labor to identify over 60 job categories that are expected to have at least 250 openings over the next decade and pay more than $20 per hour.

This new brochure and online resource will be an important tool for guiding students’ college and career choices as well as for adults looking to switch fields.

For organizations and education institutions that connect Vermonters with the training and education needed to fill these jobs, the McClure Foundation is offering funding to support training programs.

FOCUS: Human Trafficking - Its Context and Its Effect in Vermont Part 1 01/14/2019

Edith Klimoski, Vermont director of Give Way to Freedom, and Sister Pat McKittrick, RN, SP, director of the University of Vermont Community Outreach program, talk with host Margaret Harrington about the complex issue of human trafficking. In this first show of a series, they give a multi-national cultural context. They describe the human suffering caused by drugs, prostitution, poverty and gangs and how this impacts all sections of the Vermont community. They chart practical ways to confront the issue and lead the way to recovery.

UVM Medical Center Nurses March & Rally 05/12/2018

The 1,800 nurses at UVM Medical Center are currently engaged in negotiations to improve staffing, pay, and working conditions.

On Saturday, May 12th, the nurses' union held a march and rally in Burlington for safe staffing and a fair contract.

The march and rally were recorded by community producer Margaret Harrington.

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CCTV Receives NEH Grant to Support Community Archives

CCTV Center for Media & Democracy is pleased to announce receipt of a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant alongside 32 peer archival institutions across the country. This $49,927 grant award will support efforts to preserve and expand access to audio/visual community history materials in the CCTV Archives. Read more about this opportunity here!