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Redmond,
Ore. -- Ron took a tour of the Manufacturing
& Applied Technology Center at a One Stop Career
Center in Redmond to view training equipment and hear
success stories from people who have received assistance
from the facility.
One Stop Career Centers are primarily
funded by the federal Workforce Investment Act (WIA)
to help increase employment, job retention and earnings.
Funding under the law helped purchase equipment and
funds job training at the One Stop Career Center in
Redmond. The WIA is currently going through the federal
appropriations process for the next fiscal year. Wyden,
a long-time advocate for increased funding and local
flexibility for the WIA, is part of a bipartisan effort
in the U.S. Senate to fully fund the program.
Left: Dennis
Simenson, the Program Director for the Manufacturing
and Applied Technology Center, shows Ron some of the
training equipment purchased with federal funding. |