{"id":45804,"date":"2025-07-29T19:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T19:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/45804\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T19:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T19:48:10","slug":"chicago-program-providing-senior-citizens-with-job-training-paused-because-of-federal-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/45804\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago program providing senior citizens with job training paused because of federal cuts"},"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>GUEST: 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":2,"featured_media":45805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[28,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-45804","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-jobs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}