The life of a military spouse is not easy. Although not a military spouse, while working as an engineer on Hill Air Force Base in Davis County, Aniza Brown saw firsthand the struggles they faced in getting hired and into meaningful positions. Uprooting your family so often comes with many challenges, but a Clearinghouse survey found that job insecurity was the biggest challenge for military spouses between 2016 and 2020.
The Rosie Project is making significant differences in the lives of military spouses by offering specialized IT training and job placement opportunities.
A collaboration between Hill Air Force Base and Weber State University is giving military spouses a chance to advance their careers through free education.
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It didn’t matter how much Sara Warren loved her job when she found out early in the COVID-19 pandemic that her daughter’s preschool was shutting down.
With a husband whose work fell under an essential worker designation and no other options for tending their 5-year-old amid a public health crisis that was bringing their hometown near Minneapolis to a near standstill, Warren was forced to walk away from her longtime office manager position.
The impacts of that involuntary status change were deeply and personally impactful, she said.