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Federal grant to train unemployed for IT
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(IDG) -- A U.S. Department of Labor grant will train 3,300 dislocated or unemployed workers in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area for information technology jobs.
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Labor awarded the grant last week to the Washington Metro Area Technology Initiative. The group will draw trainees from the city and within a 50-mile radius in the neighboring states of Virginia and Maryland. They'll learn on-location at participating companies, including Lockheed Martin, Lucent and Pepco.
"The $20.2 million grant we are awarding [today] will prepare 3,300 workers for the most in-demand jobs," Secretary of Labor Alexis Herman said in a statement. "Two hundred people are enrolled now in the development phase of this project [and] we expect that nearly all of the trainees will find good-paying jobs in the area's high-tech companies."
A consortium of the Virginia, Maryland and District governments manages the initiative, which got started in 1998. The grant enables the project to become fully operational.
There are six offices for the project, two each in the District and nearby cities in Virginia and Maryland.
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