SUCCESS STORY: Jean Garrido, left, receives training from D.K. Kinha at Bouckaert Industrial Textiles in Woonsocket. Garrido was hired after receiving
help in career services from the state Department of Labor and Training. Gov. Gina Raimondo has expanded the state’s job training programs since taking office in 2015. / PBN FILE PHOTOS/MICHAEL SALERNO
Part of Rhode Island’s economic future depends on the state’s ability to keep pushing the envelope on job training, and that includes getting employers to keep putting “skin in the game,” according to Gov. Gina M. Raimondo. A prime example, Raimondo said, is the Westerly Education Center, a job-training facility opened in late 2016 with…
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