{"id":6416,"date":"2012-02-21T16:19:35","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T21:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/?p=6416"},"modified":"2012-02-23T15:13:58","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T20:13:58","slug":"state-senate-weighs-tax-credits-for-workforce-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2012\/02\/21\/state-senate-weighs-tax-credits-for-workforce-development\/","title":{"rendered":"State Senate Weighs Tax Credits for Workforce Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6417\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Ross Gittell testifies before the Ways and Means Committee in the NH Senate\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2012\/02\/IMG_1975.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6417\" title=\"Tax Credit Hearing\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2012\/02\/IMG_1975-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2012\/02\/IMG_1975-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2012\/02\/IMG_1975-620x465.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2012\/02\/IMG_1975-220x165.jpg 220w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2012\/02\/IMG_1975-138x103.jpg 138w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Sam Evans-Brown \/ NHPR<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ross Gittell testifies before the Ways and Means Committee in the NH Senate<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The New Hampshire Senate is considering a bill aimed at helping the <a title=\"Community College System of NH\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ccsnh.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Community College System<\/a> reduce the so-called &#8220;skills gap.&#8221; The problem the manufacturing sector faces is that while there are numerous skilled jobs available, there aren&#8217;t enough people qualified to fill them. To help bridge that gap, the <a title=\"Text of SB 405\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ccsnh.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Senate bill <\/a>would offer tax credits to businesses that partnered with the Community College System to create workforce training programs.<\/p>\n<p>Hot on the heels of his <a title=\"Q&amp;A: Why NH Factories Are Struggling To Find Workers (And What The Community College System Is Doing About It)\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2012\/02\/21\/qa-why-nh-factories-are-struggling-to-find-workers-and-what-the-community-college-system-is-doing-about-it\/\" target=\"_blank\">Q&amp;A with StateImpact<\/a>, Community College Chancellor\u00a0Ross Gittell spoke in\u00a0favor\u00a0of the program, saying it would be a &#8220;win-win-win.&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"related-content alignright\"><h4 class=\"related-header\">Related<\/h4><div class=\"links\"><h5>Posts<\/h5><ul><li class=\"link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2012\/02\/21\/qa-why-nh-factories-are-struggling-to-find-workers-and-what-the-community-college-system-is-doing-about-it\/\">Q&amp;A: Why NH Factories Are Struggling To Find Workers (And What The Community College System Is Doing About\u00a0It)<\/a><\/li><li class=\"link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2012\/02\/13\/a-look-inside-an-advanced-nh-factory\/\">A Look Inside An Advanced NH Factory<\/a><\/li><li class=\"link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2012\/02\/01\/breaking-down-nhs-manufacturing-economy-by-county\/\">Breaking Down NH\u2019s Manufacturing Economy By County<\/a><\/li><li class=\"link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2012\/02\/06\/strengths-and-weaknesses-of-manufacturing-in-new-hampshir\/\">Q&amp;A: The Strengths and Weaknesses of Manufacturing in New Hampshire<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"topics\"><h5>Topics<\/h5><p class=\"topic\"><img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2011\/07\/IMG_0549-60x60.jpg\" height=\"60\" width=\"60\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/topic\/manufacturing\/\">How NH\u2019s Building A New Manufacturing Economy<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div>According to Gittell, if the bill were to pass, schools would get much-needed resources to create training programs, manufacturers would get the skilled employees they can\u2019t find in today\u2019s workforce, and the state would get economic growth once those businesses were unfettered by labor shortages.<\/p>\n<p>Gittell says the bill, as crafted, ensures that the community colleges are accountable to the business community.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re forced \u2013 if we want to get donations \u2013 to serve the needs of businesses, because businesses are not going to donate to this program unless they see a direct connection and benefit from one of our colleges,&#8221; Gittell said.<\/p>\n<p>Under the bill, the tax credits would cost the state up to $500 thousand a year in revenue.\u00a0 But that amount could potentially rise to $2 million a year if enough businesses participate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Hampshire Senate is considering a bill aimed at helping the Community College System reduce the so-called &#8220;skills gap.&#8221; The problem the manufacturing sector faces is that while there are numerous skilled jobs available, there aren&#8217;t enough people qualified to fill them. To help bridge that gap, the Senate bill would offer tax credits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[474,53],"tags":[249,503,185,555],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6416"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6425,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6416\/revisions\/6425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}