Chao Announces $1.5 Million Grant For English Proficiency and Job Training for Hispanic Workers

U.S. Labor Secretary Elaine L. Chao Announces $1.5 Million Grant For English Proficiency and Job Training for Hispanic Workers

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WASHINGTON, May 19 /U.S. Newswire/ -- U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao today announced a grant of $1.5 million to aid unemployed Hispanic youth and adults in the Baltimore area. The grant is the third in the Labor Department's National Hispanic Worker Initiative, announced earlier this year.

"The National Hispanic Worker Initiative will help our country's Hispanic workers prepare for and find good-paying jobs in high growth sectors," said Labor Secretary Chao. "Every worker should have the tools to find a good job with a career pathway. This $1.5 million grant will provide Hispanic youth and adults access to the training and resources needed to compete equitably in today's workforce."

The grant marks the second year of funding for the Digital Learning Group (DLG). Known as Words for Work, DLG's program will use multimedia instruction to provide occupation-specific English language and related workplace skills training for health care and construction industry employment. Approximately 225 unemployed Hispanic adults and Hispanic youth over 16 years old in the Baltimore metropolitan area will benefit from the training.

"Hispanic workers face unique employment challenges, not the least of which is a language barrier," said Assistant Secretary of Labor for Employment and Training Emily Stover DeRocco. "This grant will put the collaborative weight of business, the community college sector and the public workforce system behind an effort to equip Hispanic workers with language and occupational skills to qualify for good jobs in expanding industries."

DLG is partnering with Anne Arundel Community College, the Governor's Workforce Investment Board of Maryland, a consortium of faith-based organizations and the Maryland Hospital Association. The Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration provided $1.3 million to the program in June 2003. The project funded by the grant will serve as a model for addressing similar employment barriers faced by Asian-Americans, Pacific Islanders and other minority groups around the country.

The Hispanic Worker Initiative is part of a larger effort to link the resources of the $15 billion public workforce system to jobs in demand. Currently, the Labor Department's Employment and Training Administration is funding unique, industry-driven demonstration projects through the President's High Growth Job Training Initiative. These include Hispanic workers in their overall service strategy. The department will continue to explore more innovative projects throughout the year that address the identified workforce challenges of Hispanic Americans.

...The Hispanic Worker Initiative is part of a larger effort to link the resources of the $15 billion public workforce system to jobs in demand. Currently, the Labor Department's Employment and Training Administration is funding unique, industry-driven demonstration projects through the President's High Growth Job Training Initiative. These include Hispanic workers in their overall service strategy. The department will continue to explore more innovative projects throughout the year that address the identified workforce challenges of Hispanic Americans...

This is Post-Republic Socialism from the Post-Republican Party..

You want to gain English proficiency? Okay, latinos, escúchenme:

1) TURN OFF UNIVISION!!!
2) Stop listening to that Tex-Mex Michoacana polka station, and try listening to English talk radio once in a while.
3) Read your local newspaper, cover to cover.
4) Get out of your house, and out of your balkanized barrio enclaves and SPEAK ENGLISH with real people! Carry on conversations! Just try it! Sure, you'll make an asno of yourself from time to time--you're supposed to. It's called "learning a language." It's not easy, but it can be fun. And you'll soon find that English is not as hard as you thought.

There. I just saved the government $1.5 million.

The Republican Party's naked pandering to the ethnic vote with one welfare scheme after another is really disgusting. So much for principle. Barry Goldwater is revolving in his grave.

O I though then were talking about the 70’s “chooch chooch” girl Chao ………never mind

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