Local Agencies Receive Federal Grants to Aid Homeless Veterans
By EGP News Report
Six Los Angeles-area agencies received federal grants totaling nearly $1.9 million last week to provide homeless veterans with job training and placement assistance.
The grants were among 97 issued across the country, totaling more than $24 million, according to U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis.
Programs receiving the grants were: Salvation Army, $553,606; People Assisting the Homeless, $130,000; United States Vets Inc., $300,000; Volunteers of America, $300,000; Weingart Center Association, $300,000; and New Directions Inc., $300,000.
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Not ONE VETERAN will get any certification, career degree, or put on a journeyman track with the money!
The “TRAINING” will be worthless “Life Skills” nonsense, supervised resume classes with BLANK RESUMES because they have no REAL TRAINING, and sorting clothes at Goodwill masqueraded as “Job Training”.