Tech Training Nonprofit Increases Overlooked Talent Income By 429% | Forbes

Per Scholas is disrupting the skills divide by offering free, intensive IT job training to groups grossly underrepresented in IT employment today. Ninety percent of Per Scholas students are people of color, a third are women and a third are disconnected young adults. While only 20% of community college students graduate within three years, 85% of Per Scholas students graduate in fourteen weeks or less. And, 80% of those graduates secure jobs.
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[@orchid2407]

Sitting here clapping and crying because he graduated😂😂😂
Gosh, it's a beautiful thing to impact a life positively!!!

[@theinfiniterun]

This is great! Something that actually bridges the gap between the underprivileged and the labor shortage. Loved it! 👍

[@karanrijwani5524]

Keep updating forbes 🖤

[@freerzza655]

This is AMAZING

[@jayrod1720]

20% don't get hired or get discrimination somehow?

[@RussellStonerComedy]

Noice

[@kasseen]

Let's not act like Tech companies aren't extremely discriminative....a black guy can have a degree and all the skills and still get passed up by a white dude with no degrees applying for the same job

[@user-ox9vu2gl5n]

BETA BETA BETA!!!

[@jackieanderson4139]

That is part of why Per Scholas does what they do!! www.diversebydesign.org/

[@andyvaldez1134]

wow your ignorance is strong

[@chind0na]

There’s got to be black-led startups to apply to.