Karuna Khadka attended workshops, received job-search assistance, referrals to ESL classes, and transportation assistance. That wraparound support paid off. She increased her job skills and wages.
With an unemployment rate under 3%, Ottawa County has one of the lowest in the state. Allise Wilkerson, talent solutions manager for West Michigan Works!, discusses the opportunities the talent shortage is creating for workers.
There is an affordable housing crisis in Ottawa County. Housing Next, created in 2018 to address the county’s affordable housing crisis, has set a goal of adding 7,500 units by 2023. In the past two years, the organization has had a hand in supporting a dozen projects that will add 2,000 new housing units at a range of price points.
In the past year, Holland has looked at the future of the city’s waterfront and asked stakeholders and residents to dream about how this natural resource could evolve in the coming decades. Here's one idea for bringing affordable housing downtown.
There’s a correlation between childhood literacy and healthy adults. At Lakewood Family Medicine in Holland, Dr. Kurt Lindberg has given out thousands of books to parents to encourage them to read to their kids.
Ready for School is at the center of a community-wide effort to close the achievement gap. In the last decade, the results have been impressive.
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