Mayor Michelle Wu today announced the creation of the Cabinet for Worker Empowerment led by Trinh Nguyen who will serve as the City’s Chief of Worker Empowerment.

OWD was recently awarded $3 million from the US Department of Labor to create and expand equitable pre-apprenticeship pathways to Registered Apprenticeship Programs (RAP), as well as Equity Partnerships.

As the lead applicant, OWD brought together partners from key organizations that serve unemployed, underemployed, incumbent workers, community college students, and BIPOC individuals within the Greater Boston Region.

Boston Builds Credit awards its first seal of approval to the credit-building loan FAIR Credit Builder

A group of young Boston residents from PowerCorpsBOS, a partnership between the Mayor’s Office of Workforce Development and the Environment, Energy, and Open Space Cabinet, joined the Boston Parks and Recreation Department’s Urban Wilds Program for an instructional tree planting at Buena Vista Urban Wild in Roxbury on October 25. Participants from left to right: Nickolas Cruz; Damoni Swain; Christopher Edwards; Dandre Cloud; Rasheed Avinger; Richard Sheriff; Jelaine Flores