03/07/2023
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"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..."
"I think the deficits, as they are now, are not used for the right purposes."
"I have seen what these teachers are dealing with, with overcrowded classrooms, with inadequate textbooks, with not having the after-school resources, early childhood investments that we know will impr..."
"But when we talk about investing in resources and programs that we know will benefit our children and their future, somehow that is not something that is worth investing in."