{"id":8468,"date":"2012-06-21T15:26:11","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T21:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=8468"},"modified":"2012-06-21T15:26:11","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T21:26:11","slug":"quick-facts-on-idahos-workforce-training-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/06\/21\/quick-facts-on-idahos-workforce-training-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Facts On Idaho&#8217;s Workforce Training Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Idaho Department of Labor has awarded 260 workforce development training grants since the program&#8217;s inception in 1996.\u00a0 Some of those contracts went to the same companies.<\/p>\n<p>Grants for training workers <a title=\"Tracking Idaho Workforce Training Grants\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/05\/07\/tracking-idaho-workforce-training-grants\/\" target=\"_blank\">range<\/a> from a few thousand dollars to a few million dollars.<\/p>\n<h3>Quick Facts:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>205 businesses have received workforce training grants since 1996<\/li>\n<li>The <em>planned<\/em> number of new employees totals 26,000<\/li>\n<li>The average training cost per employee is $2,400<!--more--><\/li>\n<li>The average wage of those employees is $13.06 per hour<\/li>\n<li>Businesses have been reimbursed for $32,155,802 since 1996<\/li>\n<li>Grants are paid for by a portion of business unemployment insurance taxes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"source\">Source: Idaho Department of Labor<\/p>\n<p>Jenny Hemly is the program&#8217;s contract manager.\u00a0 She says as long as businesses meet the program&#8217;s <a title=\"Understanding Workforce Development Training Grants\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/topic\/workforce-training-grants\/\" target=\"_blank\">qualifications<\/a>, they can receive an unlimited number of the grants.<\/p>\n<p>Hemly says 18 contracts for workforce development training grants were written last year.\u00a0 So far this year, she says 10 have been drawn up.<\/p>\n<p>The program has <a title=\"Idaho\u2019s Worker Training Subsidy Expansion Approved\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/06\/20\/idahos-worker-training-subsidy-expansion-approved\/\" target=\"_blank\">recently been expanded<\/a> to allow companies that aren&#8217;t growing their workforce to receive training reimbursements.<\/p>\n<h3>Here&#8217;s a sample contract:<\/h3>\n<div class=\"embed-documentcloud\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><div class=\"DC-embed DC-embed-document DV-container\"> <div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:129.4444444444444%;height:0;overflow:hidden;max-width:100%;\"> <iframe src=\"\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/370541-1draft-updated-wdtf-contract.html?embed=true&amp;responsive=false&amp;sidebar=false\" title=\"Sample Workforce Development Training Fund Grant Contract (Hosted by DocumentCloud)\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-forms\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:1px solid #aaa;border-bottom:0;box-sizing:border-box;\"><\/iframe> <\/div> <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Idaho Department of Labor has awarded 260 workforce development training grants since the program&#8217;s inception in 1996.\u00a0 Some of those contracts went to the same companies. Grants for training workers range from a few thousand dollars to a few million dollars. Quick Facts: 205 businesses have received workforce training grants since 1996 The planned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[37,165],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}