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

[UpInArms]

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 placement program.

The Department of Labor has yet to release more than $300 million in funds for national grantees of the Senior Community Service Employment Program, which was created in 1965 to help low-income, out-of-work adults 55 and older — especially veterans, rural residents and people with disabilities — return to the workforce.

On July 1, the Department of Labor released about $86 million in funds to state recipients, but the national grantees’ funds were not released (something that’s typically done in May), several of the longtime participating nonprofit organizations told CNN. The funding pause of the program that serves about 40,000 seniors was first reported by Bloomberg Law.

As a result, those organizations say they’ve had to furlough seniors participating in the program, as well as their own employees. These moves are coming at a time when hiring activity has continued to slow in the broader US labor market.

“This is an intrinsically American program, when you think about it: people who want to work, who want to be contributing members of society, people who want to be able to support themselves, who want to be a part of a community,” Kendra Davenport, president and chief executive officer of Easterseals, which provides services to children and adults with disabilities.

More at:

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/29/economy/senior-job-training-funding-ends

The cruelty is not a bug, it’s a feature

[Hugin]

1. How do they expect us to pull ourselves up by our orthopedic shoes...

And get hoeing in the monkey dung mines without training? Seriously.