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EOCC was awarded a $1,636,688.00 Community Based Job Training grant. This flyer gives great background about the program. Here is a summary copied from the Whitehouse.gov webpage: To help America's community colleges train 100,000 additional workers for the industries that are creating the most new jobs, the President proposed and Congress enacted $250 million in FY 2005 to create Community-Based Job Training Grants. The President's initiative will build on Department of Labor's successful High Growth Job Training Initiative, launched under President Bush in 2002, which has provide $163 million to 87 partnerships nationwide between community colleges, which has provided $163 million to 87 partnerships nationwide between community colleges, workforce agencies, and empoloyers. The President's FY 2006 Budget proposes to continue this grant program with $250 million to help community colleges train workers with the skills most in demand by local employers.
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