See every side of every news story
Published loading...Updated

The Labor Department has suddenly stopped funding a senior job training program

UNITED STATES, JUL 29 – The funding pause affects about 40,000 low-income seniors nationwide and risks furloughs for over 2,700 workers, as the program faces possible elimination in the 2026 budget proposal.

Summary by KIFI
By Alicia Wallace, CNN (CNN) — Goodwill, Easterseals and other nonprofit organizations say thousands of low-income seniors could soon be unemployed because funding hasn’t come through for a decades-old federal job training and placement program. The Department of Labor has yet to release more than $300 million in funds for national grantees of the Senior Community Service Employment Program, which was created in 1965 to help low-income, out-of-w…

Bias Distribution

  • 67% of the sources are Center
67% Center

Factuality 

To view factuality data please Upgrade to Premium

Ownership

To view ownership data please Upgrade to Vantage

abc12/WJRT broke the news in Flint, United States on Tuesday, July 29, 2025.
Sources are mostly out of (0)

Similar News Topics