HARTFORD — State Senator Cathy Osten (D-Sprague) today praised Connecticut’s investment of nearly $19 million in a variety of apprenticeship, manufacturing supply chain, vocational-technical, emerging technology and other business-friendly workforce investment financing included on the State Bond Commission agenda for next week.
The agenda includes $5 million alone for one of Sen. Osten’s signature pro-jobs legislative accomplishments, the Apprenticeship Connecticut Initiative, which is designed to create workforce pipeline programs and train qualified entry-level residents for jobs with Connecticut-based manufacturers and other employers in state industries that need more workers.
That jobs program and the state bonding to support it will be especially useful in eastern Connecticut, which has seen a 9.1% increase in manufacturing jobs over the past year and whose regional unemployment rate is now lower than the national average.
“For years now my mantra has been the jobs in Connecticut are there, the jobs are growing, and we just need the people, the trained workforce, to fill those jobs,” Sen. Osten said. “That’s what this state bonding does: it puts people in the pipeline to be trained for high-paying, in-demand jobs right here in Connecticut. Big corporate CEOs and small manufacturing owners are begging Connecticut to help put people on their shop floors and fill the orders that are rolling in. That’s what we’re doing. And the best part of these investments is that it keeps young people in the state, buying homes, raising families, and living the American dream right here in Connecticut.”
Next week’s State Bond Commission agenda includes:
The State Bond Commission is scheduled to meet Tuesday, December 11, 2019 in Room 1-E of the legislative Office Building in Hartford.
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