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Local WIOA official warns funding cuts have reduced job‑center services and training options across three counties
Summary
A workforce representative reported that recent contract and grant reductions have cut job‑coach positions, eliminated youth funding and reduced training accounts — leaving three counties sharing three job centers and limiting the county’s ability to fund training such as CDL programs.
A local workforce official (identified in the transcript as Adam) told the Board of Supervisors that federal and state funding changes have forced program consolidations, staff reductions and lower contractor support for Northeastern Arizona’s WIOA area.
Adam described several specific impacts: consolidation of previously multiple contractor roles into one operator, reduction of contractor budgets (he said one…
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