A report from The Connecticut Mirror:
In addition to cutting funding for more than 6,500 state jobs, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s new plan to balance the state budget also slices more than $ 25 million from over two dozen job training, economic development and tourism programs over this fiscal year and next.
“As everyone knows, this was not the path we chose, but at this juncture, it is the only path we can take,” Malloy wrote Friday in a statement issued jointly with Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman. “Connecticut is in the midst of the worst fiscal crisis it’s faced in many, many years.”
But while thousands of state workers could be out of a job by Sept. 1, according to administration officials, many of the programs that help create new ones, or prepare workers to find employment, already will have been cut.
At the Labor Department, the administration ordered cuts to four worker training programs, a career search networking service and two positions in the apprenticeship program.
The state’s Opportunity Industrial Centers, which coordinate job preparation services to individuals with significant barriers to employm……….. continues on The Connecticut Mirror.
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