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The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) is committed to making sure that Americans who are most in need— specifically youth and young adults ages 17-29 with barriers to employment, individuals with disabilities, individuals with limited English proficiency, individuals with criminal records, and other unemployed, dislocated, underemployed, and front-line incumbent workers —have access to new, innovative training opportunities and employment opportunities in H-1B occupations and industries.
For that reason, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), has awarded $150 million in grant funds for the H-1B TechHire Partnership (TechHire) grant program to 39 partnership grants, with individual grant amounts ranging from $2 million to $5 million. This grant program is designed to equip individuals with the skills they need through innovative approaches that can rapidly train workers for and connect them to well-paying, middle- and high-skilled, and high-growth jobs across a diversity of H-1B industries such as Information Technology (IT), healthcare, advanced manufacturing, financial services, and broadband.
These grants will pilot and scale public-private partnerships among the workforce investment system, education and training providers, and business-related nonprofit organizations to address the following goals for the target populations: