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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 announced today grant awards totaling over $24 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 21^st 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:

For more information, please go to www.dol.gov.

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