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Your local Work Force Board may give you a one-time $5,000 job re-training stipend, but where will you work if thousands of manufacturing plants are being shut down, including one Cary, Illinois plant featured in the New York Times?
$5,000 Enough to Retrain @ Displaced Worker, Cary Plant Closed?
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Driving the CTA Red line today because of a $5,000 worker retraining grant is how my brother, a former Chicago Board of Options clerk, benefitted from his Work Force Board investment.
For many other manufacturing workers, this once-in-a-lifetime stipend may not be enough to do more than get them back to work making just pennies more than their original minimum wage.
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