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Week
of March 17-23 , 2008 |
Last week, the House of Representatives voted for a $40 million appropriation
to expand the No Worker Left Behind initiative, which is an important
victory for Michigan workers.My administration launched the No Worker Left Behind initiative to give unemployed workers in Michigan, and those about to be laid off, the chance to get a college degree or other training to fill high-demand jobs by having their tuition paid for. Michigan government needs to do all it can to help people willing to work hard get the skills they need for those good jobs. 
While the No Worker Left Behind initiative is barely eight months
old, it has already enrolled 20,000 Michigan citizens in job training
or college, and there are more than 11,000 people in Michigan today
who are on waiting lists for the training and education provided
by No Worker Left Behind.This critical program is making good use of federal job-training funds that come to our state, but we also need state support to reach our goal of helping 100,000 Michigan workers get new skills and new jobs. The most important issue we face in Michigan today is jobs.
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 The
Governor’s weekly radio address is released each Friday at 10:00
a.m. and may be heard on broadcast stations across the state through
an affiliation with the Michigan Association of Broadcasters. The
address will also be available on the Governor’s Website on
Mondays as a podcast for general distribution to personal MP3 players
and home computers. |
