{"id":103009,"date":"2025-07-29T20:51:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T20:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/103009\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T20:51:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T20:51:13","slug":"ive-been-working-all-my-life-with-retirement-out-of-reach-chicago-seniors-lose-job-training-lifeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/103009\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019ve been working all my life\u2019: With retirement out of reach, Chicago seniors lose job training lifeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Labor\u2019s Senior Community Service Employment program provides job training, computer skills, and resume coaching for seniors who can\u2019t afford to retire.<\/p>\n<p>It has placed hundreds of seniors in jobs in community centers, schools, and public assistance programs. But as of July 1 of this year, the 140 seniors participating in this program have been furloughed because of federal and state funding cuts.<\/p>\n<p>Reset speaks to three participants about how this program has helped them afford life-saving medications and rent, and what needs to be in place for them to thrive.<\/p>\n<p><b>GUEST: <\/b>Patricia Johnson, Senior Community Service Employment Program participant<\/p>\n<p>Sandra Robinson, Senior Community Service Employment Program participant<\/p>\n<p>Sharon Rainey, Senior Community Service Employment Program participant<\/p>\n<p>Sheryl Holman, CEO, Community Assistance Program<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The U.S. Department of Labor\u2019s Senior Community Service Employment program provides job training, computer skills, and resume coaching&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":103010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[64,420,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-103009","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-jobs","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114938503763436880","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}