Mayor Nutter is spending the day, among other things, talking into microphones about all of this sweet, sweet stimulus money that’s starting to come into play in Philadelphia. (We used Bizarro Nutter in the graphic only because it just seemed more Wu-Tangian; maybe when this whole bad epoch is behind us, the BN graphic could just be renamed “Wu-Tang Nutter.” To sleep, perchance to dream.) Anyway, two big piles of cash to consider here: One is the $14.1M in Federal Recovery Funds coming the City’s way, which The Dude and the Philadelphia Workforce Investment Board (PWIB) would like to use toward getting you unemployos re-educated and re-trained, since whatever you were doing before worked out so well. According to the PWIB,

A new provision in ARRA that separates it from previous workforce legislation allows funds for adults and recently laid-off workers appropriated under the Act to be used for training through institutions of higher education. To take advantage of this opportunity, the Philadelphia Workforce Investment Board adopted a new policy that provides preference in obtaining funding to training, education, and employment programs that yield college credit or link to credit-bearing programs.

Not bad. (And if you are a potential provider of training, better still — you can start constructing your bid now.) Better still? Phila.gov/recovery, where anyone with a mind to can see which Recovery Act moneybags the City is going after, and how, if gotten, they could help you. Aw, Dude. Thanks!

This entry was posted on Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 at 11:20 am.