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On the recordNovember 19, 2019
As you can see from this chart, WIOA was funded at $4.6 billion in fiscal year 2001. These are programs to train people for the 21st--skills of the future, but it only received $2.8 billion in funding for fiscal year 2019.
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Steven Horsford
Democratic · Nevada

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Horsford points out significant cuts to workforce training program funding over the years.

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