Dive Brief:
- A competitive grant program of the U.S. Department of Education and Department of Labor has awarded $450 million in grants for job training to nearly 270 community colleges.
- Grant winners in the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training program are required to work with employers to develop their training programs, aimed at in-demand jobs.
- Before this round of grants, the program has awarded $1.5 billion over the last three years.
Dive Insight:
The announcement includes a searchable list, by state, of the grant award winners with their projects described. Nationwide, 25 grant winners are developing jobs in the cybersecurity and information technology fields, where jobs are growing twice as fast as the national average, according to the program’s White House boosters. Employers working with the program’s colleges in that sector include Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Booz Allen, and SpaceX. Other employers in the program include Exxon-Mobil, IBM, Delta, Jetblue, CVS, and Habitat for Humanity.