White House Announces TechHire Initiative, $100M Competition for Workforce Training

This week, the Obama administration launched TechHire, a new, multi-sector initiative that seeks to educate workers through universities, community colleges, high-quality online courses, and other nontraditional approaches like “coding bootcamps,” with many programs not requiring a four-year degree. To support the program, the administration and the Department of Labor are creating a $100 million H-1B grant competition that funds innovative approaches to training and employing low-skilled individuals with training barriers, such as those with child care responsibilities, disabilities, limited English proficiency, among others.  More than twenty communities throughout the country have committed to using data and innovative hiring practices to expand openness to non-traditional hiring, expand models for training that prepare students in a faster timeframe, and build local strategies and partnerships to better connect people to jobs as part of the TechHire initiative.

Read the White House fact sheet on the TechHire initiative…