Women's Center for Education & Career Advancement

Merble Reagon of The Women's Center for Education and Career Advancement and Ai-jen Poo, Director of National Domestic Workers Alliance , Co-director of Caring Across Generations campaign and 2014 MacArthur Genius Grant were honored at our 2012 !

Over 40% of New York City Households Struggle to Make Ends Meet According to the the United Way's 2014 Self-Sufficiency Standard Report, 42% of people in New York are living below the self-sufficiency standard.

Tune in to WVOX Radio 1460 tonight at 6PM, when Allison Sesso & Michelle Jackson of Human Services Council of NYC (HSC) interview our own Loren Miller about the 2014 Self-Sufficiency Standard Report. Merble Reagon from the Women’s Center for Education and Career Advancement and B**h Ha Pham from the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies also join the show.

Meanwhile, take a look at just one of the many unexpected statistics from the report:

Chris Hayes goes off: ‘American capitalism is not producing’ for 47 million poor Americans | The... MSNBC host Chris Hayes couldn’t contain his exasperation on Wednesday in discussing the implications for poor Americans if $5 billion is cut from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) on Friday.

We are looking for career professionals who are interested in serving as career coaches on a consultant basis for our WorkReady program. If interested, please contact us!

Better to have used tools WCECA has developed, such as the self-sufficiency calculator (http://wceca.org/self_sufficiency.php), which calculates how well a given wage meets a working individual's real expenses.

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/07/mcdonalds-cant-figure-out-how-its-workers-survive-on-minimum-wage/277845/

McDonald's Can't Figure Out How Its Workers Survive On Minimum Wage In a financial planning guide for its workers, the company accidentally illustrates precisely how impossible it is to scrape by making minimum wage.

It's official-- Our brand new website is up and running! Be sure to check it out & support our work: http://wceca.org/

W.C.E.C.A. Since 1970, the Women's Center for Education and Career Advancement (WCECA) has maintained its commitment to the goal of economic self-sufficiency for NYC women, especially those who are underserved and underrepresented. We provide the tools women require to successfully navigate the system, in orde...

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We are now soliciting suggestions for a potential new name for our organization. Must be short, simple, smart, and pronounceable as an acronym! Any ideas?

Congratulations to WCECA's Executive Director, Merble Reagon, who will receive a prestigious award this Thursday, May 10, at the 25th Anniversary New York Women's Foundation Breakfast, along with Ai-Jen P**n and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton!
http://www.nywfbreakfast.org/view_journal.php?journal_id=356

Celebrating Women Breakfast 2012