I can tell you, coming from western Pennsylvania where we know about dislocated workers and the need for job training and people to readapt when companies move and with the loss of manufacturing jobs, those are critically important programs that the President considers to be excessive spending.
Discussing the importance of job training programs for dislocated workers in the Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill.
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