futurework: Chapter 1 - Box 1.3
Programs are available to increase the educational attainment of our workforce and improve training opportunities for those who choose not to go to college:
Hope Scholarships: Provide tax credits of up to $1,500 for tuition and fees for students in the first two years of college or other eligible postsecondary training programs.
Lifetime Learning Credit: Provides a 20 percent credit for the first $5,000 ($10,000 beginning in 2003) of tuition and fees each year to students beyond the first two years of college, or those taking classes part time to upgrade their job skills.
Learning Anytime, Anywhere Partnerships: Provides grants to partnerships of two or more independent organizations to ensure that high-quality learning opportunities are available to distance education students.
Montgomery G.I. Bill--Active Duty and Selected Reservists: Provides education benefits to veterans and reservists for degree and certificate programs, flight training, apprenticeship or on-the-job training, correspondence courses, and other training.
Pell Grants: Provide assistance to low and middle-income under-graduate students.
Student Loans: Provide guarantees of commercial loans under the Federal Family Education Loan Program, and direct loans to schools and students under the Direct Loan Program.
Vocational Rehabilitation Act: Provides grants to enable States to provide vocational rehabilitation services to persons with disabilities.
Veterans Educational Assistance Program: Provides benefits for degree and certificate programs and other training.
Workforce Investment Act of 1998: Provides workers with the information, job search assistance, education, training, and support they need to get and keep good jobs; and provides employers with skilled workers.
S O U R C E : 21st Century Skills for 21st Century Jobs, U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Department of Education, U.S. Department of Labor, National Institute for Literacy, and Small Business Administration, January 1999.
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