Trump's Big CON: Pay No Attention to Those Budget Cuts to Worker Programs While The Great and Powerful Donald Sends His Beautiful Daughter to Distract You

"President Trump's proposed cuts to the country’s job-training programs could jeopardize the very [services that workers need for] upward mobility. . .

The president's budget proposal for 2018 called for slashing $2.5 billion from the Department of Labor's $9.6 billion budget, a reduction of about 21 percent, according to an analysis from the National Skills Coalition, a national worker advocacy group.

The budget calls for a 40 percent cut to the Labor Department’s Wagner-Peyser Employment Service, which supports about 14 million job seekers annually and last year helped nearly six million people find jobs.

The proposed reductions include a $1.3 billion cut to programs which operate under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, which Congress reauthorized in a bipartisan move three years ago.

Author Angela Hanks, associate director for workforce policy at the Center for American Progress, said the reduced funding to WIOA initiatives could lead to about 571,000 million adults and teenagers losing access to the job training opportunities in 2018. Those services include resume polishing, literacy lessons and employment placement."

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