Labor Secretary Solis pushes jobs program

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stories/2009/07/20/daily18.html

Tuesday, July 21, 2009, 11:49am CDT
Kansas City Business Journal

In a program U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis is touting during visits Tuesday to the Kansas City area, job training programs focusing on health care fields can compete for $220 million in grant money to help further their mission.

Solis was in Topeka Tuesday morning and is expected in Kansas City later in the day.

“An important part of our nation’s continued economic recovery is ensuring that workers have the necessary skills to enter high-growth industries,” Solis said in a release. “Health care continues to offer workers opportunities to enter career-track jobs, earn good wages and make a positive impact on the communities in which they live and work.”

The money is available through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

A notice of the grant solicitation appears in Tuesday’s Federal Register and also is available on the Department of Labor’s Web site and the federal E-Grants Initiative Web site.

[MadMaddie]

1. All fronts of our government need to be involved in creating

jobs, the public sector that the Repugs love so much (still outsourcing) and failing the American public. I hope the American public doesn't forget.

[JDPriestly]

2. We need manufacturing jobs, jobs that allow Americans to produce

products for export to other countries. Service industries are OK, but they don't shore up our currency or help our trade deficit. We can't just be changing each other's bed pans for a living.