{"id":84721,"date":"2025-12-11T23:56:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T23:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/84721\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T23:56:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T23:56:06","slug":"workforce-solutions-south-plains-receives-nearly-150000-to-train-students-for-high-demand-careers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/84721\/","title":{"rendered":"Workforce Solutions South Plains receives nearly $150,000 to train students for high-demand careers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; More than 500 students across the South Plains will receive specialized training to fulfill high-demand jobs in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Workforce Solutions South Plains received nearly $150,000 from the Texas Workforce Commission. Part of that money was also matched by the Lubbock Economic Development Alliance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The funding will help train students in fields like mechanics, welding and construction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Workforce Commission said now is the time to train and prepare young people to enter the workforce as current workers age out of critical, but labor-intensive jobs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; More than 500 students across the South Plains will receive specialized training to fulfill&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[319,40715,66,168,40714,170,40718,169,223,374,40717,4462,40716,290],"class_list":["post-84721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-kcbd","tag-leda","tag-local","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-economic-development-alliance","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-jobs","tag-lubbock-news","tag-news","tag-south-plains","tag-texas-jobs","tag-texas-workforce-commission","tag-twc","tag-workforce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}