June 18, 2015
Maine gets $3.66M to help unemployed
The Maine Department of Labor is receiving $3.66 million in federal grants to help people who have been out of work for over 27 weeks or are about to run out of unemployment benefits.
The Bangor Daily News reported that money from the U.S. Department of Labor will fund statewide programs to help long-term unemployed people find training and other work opportunities. It will focus on the health care, IT and advanced manufacturing sectors.
The newspaper quoted U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez as saying that the federal funding aims to match in-demand fields with job training, adding that it will complete “unfinished business of the recovery” from the 2008 recession.
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