The good news is that laid-off workers are taking advantage of the No Worker Left Behind initiative. As of the end of June, over 81,000 Michiganders had enrolled in the program. The bad news is that it's so popular that the waiting list is about 8,000 people long.
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Two years after Michigan launched its No Worker Left Behind
initiative, one thing's for certain: Laid-off workers can't get enough
of the popular job-training program.
State
economic development officials are likely to exceed their goal of
training 100,000 residents in three years. At the end of June, 81,217
Michiganders had enrolled in the program, and nearly 8,000 were on a
waiting list to attend either orientation sessions or their first
classes.
The
response has been so high that workforce officials expect the state to
continue offering No Worker Left Behind beyond mid-2010, when the
program is supposed to end.
"It's
incredibly helpful," said Kate Romano, who is taking courses at Macomb
Community College to get her associate's degree in nursing.
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