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WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding an $18.5 million American Rescue Plan Good Jobs Challenge grant to Chicago Cook Workforce Partnership, Chicago, Illinois, to create sustainable pipelines to good-paying jobs with a focus on communities on Chicago’s South and West sides.

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding an $18.6 million American Rescue Plan Good Jobs Challenge grant to City of New York Human Resources Administration, New York, to create NYC Pathways to Industrial and Construction Careers, a workforce development program for the local building and construction and transportation, distribution, and logistics industries.

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $9.7 million American Rescue Plan Good Jobs Challenge grant to Alaska Primary Care Association (APCA), Anchorage, Alaska, for Alaska’s Healthcare Workforce Pipeline Project to expand job opportunities and improve Alaska’s healthcare sector through training programs.

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $10 million American Rescue Plan Good Jobs Challenge grant to Miami Dade College, Miami, Florida, to establish Miami Tech Works, a cybersecurity workforce training program.

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $10.8 million American Rescue Plan Good Jobs Challenge grant to the city of Birmingham, Alabama, to establish the Birmingham Region Health Partnership, a healthcare workforce training program.

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $14.9 million American Rescue Plan Good Jobs Challenge grant to Nevadaworks, Reno, Nevada, to develop and launch the Northern Nevada Equity in Employment Project, which will bolster and diversify the regional economy by placing workers into positions in growth industries.

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $16.4 million American Rescue Plan Good Jobs Challenge grant to the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Mānoa, Hawaiʻi, to create workforce training programs in four of the state’s major industries: healthcare, information technology, energy and resilience, and film, arts, and media.

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $17.5 million American Rescue Plan Good Jobs Challenge grant to the city of Springfield, Missouri, to further the Quadra-Regional Workforce Alliance, a workforce training program to support the region’s healthcare, trucking, and education industries.

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $21.5 million American Rescue Plan Good Jobs Challenge grant to the Foundation for California Community Colleges, Sacramento, California, to develop and launch California Resilient Careers in Forestry, a forestry workforce training program.

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $23 million American Rescue Plan Good Jobs Challenge grant to the Economic Development and Industrial Corporation of Boston, Massachusetts, to create the Greater Boston Region Workforce Training System, a healthcare, energy and resilience, and childcare workforce training program.