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Cambridge councilor and workforce groups back bill to create a job‑training trust funded by linkage fees

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Cambridge officials and nonprofit workforce providers urged the committee to allow the city to create a jobs training trust that would hold linkage‑fee revenue for multi‑year job training investments and provide stipends for trainees; advocates cited Somerville’s $3 million dispersal as a model.

Cambridge city councilors and workforce providers told the Joint Committee on Municipalities and Regional Government that a Cambridge jobs training trust would preserve development‑linked funds for multi‑year workforce investments and provide a reliable source of funding for training and stipends.

Councillor Javon S. Wheeler (testifying) described H.4134 as an enabling act that would allow…

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