In an effort to bolster the effectiveness of a workforce training program announced last summer, the Mayor’s Office of Employment Development and Maryland Legal Services Corp. are partnering to add access to legal assistance to the list of services available ...

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Executives at Horseshoe Casino want Baltimoreans on their payroll.

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Baltimore’s new casino, which has yet to officially break ground, will aim to hire city residents, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake pledged Wednesday after the city’s spending panel approved creation of a new position whose task will be to hire at least 1,700 new construction and gaming employees at the site.

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March was not a good month for the national labor market. Thousands of people dropped out of the workforce, and employers hired at their slowest pace since June. The unemployment numbers, released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, were a disappointment to many who expected a continuation of this year’s steady growth.

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At first glance, Second Chance looks like a second-hand furniture and building materials shop. And it is.

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Baltimore has job training programs for men, for women, for youths, for fathers, for mothers, for ex-offenders, for the homeless, for recovering addicts.

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