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Article: City, county to combine work force development efforts.(News)
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- Crain's Cleveland Business
- Article date:
- May 21, 2007
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Byline: JAY MILLER
Work force development is catching the regionalization bug.
After more than two years of negotiations, the city of Cleveland and Cuyahoga County have settled on terms of an intergovernmental agreement that will unify their work force development departments - and more work force collaborations could be on the way.
Quentin L. McCorvey Sr., vice president of corporate philanthropy and chairman of the combined Cleveland-Cuyahoga Workforce Investment Board, said because job seekers aren't constrained by borders, the public job-hunting organizations in other counties could better serve workers and employers by working together.
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