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OPA News Release: [03/12/2002]
Contact Name: Kate
Whitman
H-1B Technical Skills Training Grant
Awards Announced
Over $23 Million Going to Local Communities to Help With
Skills Training
WASHINGTON— U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao today
announced grant awards totaling more than $23 million under the H-1B Technical
Skills Training grant program. The grants were awarded to local communities to
provide high-level training to employed and unemployed workers for jobs in
occupations where skills shortages exist.
“These grants will provide much needed skills training in high
growth industries such as health services and information technology,”
Chao said. “This is helping build the 21st Century workforce
and is part of the administration’s commitment to keeping Americans
employed in good paying jobs and our training programs targeted to
occupations-in-demand.”
H-1B Technical Skills Training grants are supported by user fees paid by
employers seeking high skilled foreign workers under the H-1B visa program. The
goal of the training grants is to prepare Americans for these same high skill
jobs, reducing the dependence on foreign labor.
The grant recipients are:
| Maricopa County Human Service Department, Phoenix, Ariz. |
$3,000,000 |
| Workforce Investment Council of the District of Columbia,
Washington, D.C. |
$2,972,000 |
| Regional Employment Board of Hampden County, Springfield,
Mass. |
$3,000,000 |
| Hennepin County Workforce Investment Board, Minneapolis, Minn. |
$3,000,000 |
| Southwest Minnesota Private Industry Council, Marshall, Minn. |
$3,000,000 |
Workforce Investment Board of Herkimer, Madison, and Oneida
Counties,
Utica, N.Y. |
$2,602,008 |
| Capital Area Workforce Development Board, Raleigh, N.C. |
$2,590,952 |
| Philadelphia Workforce Investment Board, Philadelphia, Pa. |
$3,000,000 |
For more information, please go to www.dol.gov.
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