Democrat Wants Job-Training Funds to Top Great Recession Level

The top Democrat on the House labor panel is proposing a bill to nearly double the investment in workforce-training programs Congress made during the Great Recession, setting up another point of possible partisan tension as lawmakers move toward negotiations on the next major virus-relief package.

House Education and Labor Committee Chairman Bobby Scott (D-Va.) will introduce a proposal Friday to spend $15 billion on workforce-training programs, dwarfing the commitment in the $2.2 trillion CARES Act (Public Law 116-136), which featured a $345 million grant program for unemployed workers. The bill would give states funding to beef up vocational ...