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Advisory board member Amanda Wright speaks to how she was pulled out from homelessness with successful job training and support.

Business & Development

Massive city jobs program launched, open for enrollment

by Waylon Cunningham May 16, 2022May 17, 2022

Monday marks the official launch of a program city leaders hope will move thousands of residents into good-paying jobs.

Michael Ramsey, executive director of the city’s Workforce Development Office, presents a report about SA Ready to Work to City Council members on Feb. 9. Council members Thursday approved contracts for the $185 million initiative.

City Council approves $185M in contracts for SA Ready to Work program

by Waylon Cunningham February 17, 2022February 17, 2022

Michael Ramsey, executive director of the city’s Workforce Development Office, addresses City Council members during a meeting on Wednesday.

Details of SA Ready to Work training program come into focus as launch nears

by Waylon Cunningham February 9, 2022February 10, 2022

Mayor Ron Nirenberg greets attendees during the press conference detailing the $200 million workforce development program, SA: Ready to Work on Monday.

Local businesses rally behind SA Ready to Work ahead of City Council vote

by Waylon Cunningham February 7, 2022February 8, 2022

Fireworks illuminate the Tower of the Americas as San Antonio rings in the new year.

Photos of the Week

San Antonio’s week in photos, Dec. 27-Jan. 2

by Nick Wagner January 3, 2022January 3, 2022

Dyvontrae Jonhnson and Jonathan Gonzalez, both enrolled in the same IT training course through Train for Jobs SA. The different experiences these two men have had expose the challenges the pgroam is facing despite the $200 million in funding.

City Council’s $200 million bet on job training faces stiff odds

by Robert Rivard January 2, 2022January 2, 2022

Dyvontrae Johnson watches his son Atticus, 7, install parts into an old computer Wednesday.

San Antonio winds down pandemic jobs program as taxpayer funded effort gets underway

by Iris Dimmick December 31, 2021December 31, 2021

Workforce Solutions Alamo hosts an event as part of the SA Ready to Work initiative in 2020.

San Antonio’s grand job-training experiment faces dismal precedent

by Robert Rivard December 2, 2021December 2, 2021

Jeanette Winston, right, seeks rental assistance with Neighborhood and Housing Services at Mayor Ron Nirenberg’s Halloween Resource Fair Sunday.

Westside Halloween event connects hundreds of San Antonio residents to utility, rent help

by Brooke Crum October 31, 2021October 31, 2021

Nurse Manager Adam Sahyouni walks through a wing of Methodist Hospital where an additional section of rooms to treat patients battling COVID-19 has been created.

Here’s why SA is extending a jobs training program that fell short of enrollment goals

by Jackie Wang August 17, 2021August 17, 2021