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Knox County workforce center warns deep federal cuts will force service reductions
Summary
OhioMeansJobs Knox County told commissioners it faces steep federal allocation cuts — including a 69% reduction in adult WIOA funding and a 52% reduction in youth funding — that could force the center to decline services beginning Oct. 1 unless allocations are revised.
Brandy Booth, OhioMeansJobs Knox County job center administrator, told the Knox County Commissioners on July 17 that the county’s public workforce programs will face large federal allocation reductions next program year and that the cuts will reduce services.
“We're taking a 69% cut in adult funding,” Booth said, adding the county is expecting a 13% cut in dislocated worker funding and a 52% cut in youth funding. She gave a dollar example: an expected $100,000 in adult funding reduced to $34,000 under the state spreadsheet she received.
Booth explained the state methodology used to distribute Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA)…
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