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Arizona at Work presents 2023–24 report to Cochise County supervisors
Summary
Arizona at Work’s Cochise-Graham-Greenlee consortium told supervisors it has seen funding cuts tied to low local unemployment even as local training programs — including a police academy partnership — continue placing participants into jobs.
Veda Phelps, a representative of the Southeastern Arizona Arizona at Work consortium, presented the program’s 2023–24 annual report to the Cochise County Board of Supervisors, outlining workforce training activity across Cochise, Graham and Greenlee counties and warning of continuing federal funding reductions tied to low local unemployment.
Phelps said the program operates under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) funding framework and noted that federal allocation formulas — which weight funding toward areas with higher unemployment — have reduced local program funding by about $1.7 million over the past five years and could cut…
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