A report from Hispanically Speaking News:
Published at 10:38 am, October 2, 2011
Photo Credits: Cuts to Farmworker & Migrant Retraining
This paste week the House Appropriations Committee released the draft fiscal year 2012 Labor, Health, and Human Services (LHHS) funding bill. The cuts proposed in this bill would cut funding for the Department of Labor’s (DOL) Employment and Training Administration nearly in half.
“Right now there are over 14 million Americans without a job, yet a large percentage of job openings remain unfilled due to a shortage in workers who have the skills these positions require,” notes David Strauss, Executive director of AFOP. “Despite this fact, the House Appropriations Committee is proposing draconian cuts to the very job training programs working to get Americans the education and training services they need to get back to work and help businesses find the workers they need.”
The National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP), is a fiscally responsible federal job training program aimed at educating and training farmworkers into jobs that allow them to earn a self and family-sustaining income. AFOP and its 52 n……….. continues on Hispanically Speaking News.
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