At the WV Legislature: Senate Workforce Committee gets feedback on soft jobs for seniors program

By Autumn Shelton, WV Press Association

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – In an effort to increase the state’s workforce participation rate, members of the Senate Workforce Committee met on Friday to hear from various agency leaders regarding their potential participation in a soft jobs for seniors program. 

This program, first presented in February by Senate Workforce Committee Chairman Rollan Roberts, R-Raleigh, would help seniors find “easy and convenient” employment…