This proposed federal budget cut could eliminate job training for 42,000 vulnerable seniors

A job-training program for low-income older adults is set to lose funding under President Donald Trump’s proposed budget for ...
CNN

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

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 ...
KGW8

Easterseals Oregon forced to cut jobs amid funding delay from Department of Labor

PORTLAND, Ore. — Easterseals Oregon will lay off a dozen staff members due to "ongoing uncertainty" about the U.S. Department of Labor's job program for low-income, older adults, the nonprofit ...
CNBC

This federal program trains older workers. The Trump administration wants to cut it

The Senior Community Service Employment Program provides low-income people ages 55 and over with a paid opportunity to train for work. The program, known as SCSEP, was created in 1965 through the ...
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‘Devastating’: Easterseals Oregon faces layoffs, paused senior program amid delayed federal funds

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – An Oregon nonprofit is facing a round of layoffs and froze its senior job program amid a delay in federal funding — which could be “devastating” for the communities they serve ...