“…The National Council of La Raza received more than $3 million for San Jose and San Diego, as well as Chicago…”

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Labor Department gives an additional $150 million in green jobs training grants

January 13, 2010

On the heels of another green jobs announcement last week, the U.S. Labor Department awarded an additional $150 million in training grants for workers interested in energy efficiency careers.

Authorized by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the funds are part of a $500-million green jobs initiative. This round, called the Pathways Out of Poverty grants, will be parceled out to 38 projects around the country, most based in areas where poverty rates are at least 15%.

Target populations include disadvantaged individuals — high school dropouts, the unemployed — as well as minorities. The grants will help develop recruitment and referral services, basic and occupational skills education and other resources.

The awards went to two types of recipients: national nonprofits with networks of affiliates and partners, and local groups including community and faith-based organizations and labor associations.

California recipients included the Los Angeles Community College District, which was awarded $4 million for communities including Watts and Willowbrook. The National Council of La Raza received more than $3 million for San Jose and San Diego, as well as Chicago.

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NOTE on La Raza (NCLR) from Discover the Networks:

Immigration: NCLR strives “to encourage immigration policies that are fair and nondiscriminatory, to encourage family reunification, and to enact necessary reforms to the current immigration system.” In short, it favors amnesty for illegals already residing in the U.S., and open borders henceforth. In La Raza’s calculus, any restriction on the free movement of immigrants constitutes a violation of their civil rights, and any reduction in government assistance to illegal border-crossers is “a disgrace to American values.” Thus La Raza supports continued mass Mexican immigration to the United States, and hopes to achieve, by the sheer weight of numbers, the re-partition of the American Southwest as a new state called Aztlan — to be controlled by its alleged rightful owners, the people and government of Mexico. La Raza is also a sponsoring organization of the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride Coalition, which seeks to secure ever-expanding rights and civil liberties protections for illegal immigrants, and policy reforms that diminish or eliminate future restrictions on immigration. At many of the “pro-immigration” rallies that NCLR members have attended in recent times, their signature slogan has been: “La Raza unida nunca sera vencida!” (“The united [Hispanic] race will never be defeated!”)

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