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Serve, Learn, Earn coalition urges legislature to restore base funding to preserve training and placements
Summary
Coalition partners told the House Commerce & Economic Development Committee that cuts to Serve, Learn, Earn funding have reduced participant capacity about 17% and asked the legislature to raise base funding from $500,000 to $1 million to sustain programs and attract private grants.
Members of the Serve, Learn, Earn coalition told the Vermont House Committee on Commerce and Economic Development on Wednesday that recent funding cuts have reduced the number of Vermonters served and threatened program capacity.
"We served about 600 people in 2024," Kate Gluckman, director of development and communication at Vermont Works for Women, told the committee, citing coalition data on statewide reach and credentialing. Gluckman said three coalition programs were recently registered as state pre‑apprenticeship programs and stressed the importance of stipends and other direct program support that the coalition uses to make training accessible.
The coalition described mixed outcomes from recent survey follow‑ups: a majority of participants are aged 15–24, roughly half seek job placement after training, and…
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