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Washington -- $500m to Train “Green” Industry Workers
by Jon Greenberg on
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The US Department of Labor is offering $500 million of stimulus money to programs that will train workers to compete in emerging “green” industries – i.e. energy efficiency and renewability. The money is spread across five different competitions, each of which will be awarded to programs developed at either a national, state, or community level.
Today’s announcement included a notice that the DOL wants these projects to align their training with other local “Recovery Act” programs, in hopes that this will boost their ability to ultimately transfer workers into already established industries.
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http://www.doleta.gov/grants/find_grants.cfm
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