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MCC Receives $5 Million to Train Workers

Manchester Community College has received a grant of nearly 5 million dollars for a worker training program.

As NHPR’s Sam Evans-Brown reports the funds come from an unexpected source.

When American companies can’t find the American workers with the skills they need, they can bring in guest workers on a temporary visa.

Applying for that visa costs the employer a lot of money, and the Department of Labor gives that money back in the form of grants to train Americans.

David Flint , of Manchester Community College, says the program here will focus on the healthcare industry.

Flint:  we’re talking about skilled jobs, such as radiology technicians, health career coaches, people with associates degrees in registered nursing advancing to the bachelor’s level.

The program targets long-term unemployed and disadvantaged individuals, and also retrains workers who don’t have the skills required by modern healthcare. 

The college hopes that classes will be up and running next semester.

 

Sam Evans-Brown has been working for New Hampshire Public Radio since 2010, when he began as a freelancer. He shifted gears in 2016 and began producing Outside/In, a podcast and radio show about “the natural world and how we use it.” His work has won him several awards, including two regional Edward R. Murrow awards, one national Murrow, and the Overseas Press Club of America's award for best environmental reporting in any medium. He studied Politics and Spanish at Bates College, and before reporting was variously employed as a Spanish teacher, farmer, bicycle mechanic, ski coach, research assistant, a wilderness trip leader and a technical supporter.
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