(Among the awardees, Westmoreland Co. Community College to receive $4,964,534 for Natural Gas Drilling and Production)
The Department of Labor today awarded $125 million in grants to 41 community colleges and organizations. This round is the fifth and final of Community-Based Job Training Grant awards. Awardees were chosen from among 323 applications received in response to a competition first announced on March 15. Of the full amount, nearly $74 million is dedicated to applicants that have never received a Community-Based Job Training Grant.
Community-Based Job Training Grants improve the ability of community colleges to train and prepare workers for employment in high growth and other emerging industries. This last round of competitive awards will focus primarily on providing services to workers who are unemployed (can include the long-term unemployed, such as individuals who have been unemployed for six months or more), dislocated and incumbent.
Over the last four years, approximately $622 million has been awarded to 301 community colleges and other organizations in 49 states to promote job training, education and the U.S. workforce's full potential. More than 147,000 individuals have received education and training through the first four rounds of these grants.
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