Workers in Transition

Career changers now half of WCC

by James Leonard

posted 1/19/2011

Jan Emmons was laid off in December of 2008. "I'd worked ten years as office assistant at a trucking company," remembers the fifty-something Emmons, "and gone through school part-time--first Washtenaw Community College, then Eastern Michigan University." But when she lost her job, she also lost her source of college funding: "My tuition reimbursement was discontinued."

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