Last Monday, Gov. Jennifer Granholm informed that the Northeast Consortium of Michigan Works will get $300,000 in federal grant funds through the No Worker Left Behind initiative to support job-search assistance and worker re-training.

The Northeast Consortium of Michigan Works serves Cheboygan, Montmorency, Crawford, Oscoda, Alcona, Otsego, Alpena and Presque Isle counties.

No Worker Left Behind is an initiative to provide up to $10,000 for up to two years of qualifying job-training assistance at various trade schools, community colleges, private and public universities. After having received a 45 percent cut in funding from the previous fiscal year the Northeast Consortium of Michigan Works had requested additional funds to continue its training programs for all its current enrollees including the 60 residents that were added in August earlier this year.

This is a major support to people that lost their job due to the economic downturn. There is already a long waiting list for the program because of the high demand in some parts of the state.

This grant provides encouragement and support to job-training programs across the state and elsewhere.  This grant will certainly help as we all work to turn-around the Michigan economy.

No Comments »