Obama, Biden to announce millions for job training

CNN ^ | April 16, 2014 | CNN White House Producer Kevin Liptak

[Jim Robinson]

(CNN) – Hoping to help close the gap between workers' skills and the needs of businesses, President Barack Obama on Wednesday will announce he's putting hundreds of millions toward job training programs that produce highly skilled workers.

Obama and Vice President Joe Biden will head to a community college in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania to make the announcement.

The funding will come in two parts: $500 million toward a new job training competition that pairs community colleges with businesses, and $100 million for new apprenticeship programs to train workers.

The White House says the new initiatives are meant to combat a long-standing problem facing the American job market: how to fill job vacancies requiring skills few Americans have.

High-growth sectors like information technology, high-tech services, healthcare and advanced manufacturing all require workers with specific sets of training. Many in those fields say they can't find enough American workers with the required skills, forcing them to find workers overseas.

The President first announced during this year's State of the Union address that he wanted Biden to lead an administration-wide task force to examine how Americans can better train for jobs. Since then the vice president has met with CEOs and business executives and visited job training centers in New York and New Hampshire...

[Pining_4_TX]

Where is the guy with the “not this s**t again” sign? We have had government job training programs for 30 years at least. Remember the Job Corps? Like every other government program, they have been miserable failures. That goes double for government schools.

[ExCTCitizen]

Right on Jim...

[Texas resident]

Yep.
Just another dimrat money laundering scheme.
Loot the treasury to fund dimrats.

[dfwgator]

Cui Bono?

[E. Pluribus Unum]