Mr. Harder. Sorry to interrupt you, Secretary. But am I correct in believing that about a fifth of the current job centers for the Jobs Corps are going to be closed with this budge...
Mr. Harder. And yet you're trying to cut this budget by 40 percent, when in fact you say we should be doubling down on it.
Mr. Harder. Hard for me to imagine we cut a budget by 40 percent and we don't actually cut some of the centers.
Are we cutting these centers? Are there going to be fewer centers in 5 years if this budget passes?
We have real challenges making sure that we actually are connecting people into jobs.
this is a proven program with high success, and yet all the centers that exist are in areas that don't actually have the same needs as my di...
It is one of the most critical keys to agriculture and to jobs.
As the Chairman said, I represent the California Central Valley, and if you have ever seen those happy cows come from California, that is us...
I hear again and again how much tougher things are going.
The sustained period of low prices and negative margins is something he has never seen.
I think what kills me about this isn't just the context of the fact that we are cutting some of the most critical programs to improve litera...