Major Owens: “They become record clerks, x-ray technicians. There are a number of jobs where they can come out of the program and not…”

“They become record clerks, x-ray technicians. There are a number of jobs where they can come out of the program and not only get a job immediately in the New York City area or the Brooklyn area, they can go anywhere in the country, because those people are in demand, and the demand is increasing all the time. Yet our Department of Labor and their programs for job training have insisted that we can give only 6 months of training. Mr. Speaker, the head of the school told me, ``I cannot train anybody for anything in 6 months. But 6 more months and I can do something which is useful, and certainly for 2 years.'' We need job training programs which make sense and are attached to the reality of today, and one reality is that health care, health professions, anything related to health care, is a solid occupation and likely to increase, but that is not there.”