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ETA Announces $100M to Support Workforce Development in High-Need Tech Occupations, Industries
The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) announced approximately $100 million in grant funds for the TechHire partnership grant program. The ETA anticipates that it will make up to 35 grants to support pilot and scale public-private workforce development partnerships that can rapidly train workers for and connect them to well-paying, middle- and high-skilled, and high-growth jobs across a diversity of H-1B industries such as Information Technology (IT), healthcare, advanced manufacturing, financial services, and broadband. In addition to targeting H-1B industries, TechHire partnership grants may be used to support job creation in industries which are in-demand and/or high growth to the partnership’s service region. Applications are due March 11, 2016. Read the announcement…
workforce, dept of labor