As black jobless rate soars, Year Up and partners Merck, Amazon and others offer career development

As black jobless rate soars, Year Up and partners Merck, Amazon and others offer career development

Through its job training and workforce development program, nonprofit Year Up is enabling low-income young adults of color to move from minimum wage to meaningful careers in just one year.. The rate for black Americans rose to 16.8%, the highest level in a decade, and exceeded that of white Americans, which ticked down to 12.4% last month, according to BLS data.. Year Up, a nonprofit job training and education organization that focuses on bridging the gap between talent and opportunity for low income, mostly black and brown, young adults between 18 and 24 years old.. I didn't really have someone there to give me the opportunity I needed at the time," Jordan said. ". Jordan, now 29, said the training prepared well for the job he has now as a software engineer at a cost estimation company. ". In the past year, Year Up has been "helping larger organizations to really step back and look at the way in which they are creating inclusive talent pipelines," Chertavian said..