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Matt Cartwright: “There's a workforce development project for the Wyoming…”

Featuring: Matt Cartwright, Democratic | Former U.S. House, Pennsylvania, District 8

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Legislative Forum with Congressman Matt Cartwright

Published | Video Starts at 32:26

And the U.S. department of labor has its homeless veterans reintegration project in Luzerne, Lackawanna and Monroe Counties. We got money from that into our area supporting veterans during their transition from military service to civilian service. There's a workforce development project for the Wyoming Valley Chamber of Commerce that we got money through the CARES act to upskill workers who were displaced during COVID 19. That was the hook to the CARES act money, but it goes on and on. And in the next Congress we'll continue to do that because I really believe that training people up in workforce development is such a big key. (32:26–32:38)

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