Obama Administration Ponders Boosting Federal Aid To Displaced Autoworkers

A top Obama administration official said this morning in Detroit that federal aid should be increased for manufacturing workers who lose their jobs because of foreign competition.

U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis said Michigan has benefited from $50 million through the government’s Trade Adjustment Assistance program since President Barack Obama took office. She said TAA should be expanded.

“That’s a dream right now that we have,” she said at the 2012 Michigan Works! For People conference in Detroit. “We think the support provided through TAA actually works. We know that’s what’s needed.

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g2ok - 9/10/2012 5:16:38 PM

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Sounds like an election year payoff. A lot of industries lost jobs to foreign competition, not just the auto industry. Also, foreign auto makers are setting up and expanding plants in the US now, so are they going to offset those numbers.

Never mind all the scientist and engineers that lost jobs at NASA and DoE during the last 4 years. No politician talks about that.

drell1emc - 9/10/2012 8:04:21 PM

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The Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) Program is a federal program that provides a path for employment growth and opportunity through aid to US workers who have lost their jobs as a result of foreign trade. The TAA program seeks to provide these trade-affected workers with opportunities to obtain the skills, resources, and support they need to become reemployed. The program benefits and services that are available to individual workers are administered by the states through agreements between the Secretary of Labor and each state Governor. Program eligibility, technical assistance, and oversight are provided by the US Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration's Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance

drell1emc - 9/10/2012 8:08:56 PM

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since 2004 we have had this, must have been some plot by the previous POTUS.
Dam them for training peoople to get jobs verses welfare

bfghemicuda - 9/11/2012 10:14:17 AM

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Screw the whole TAA program. Just another Big government Nanny program. I don't know of any company that dosen't have on the job training. If one looses or changes a job they have the opportunity to better there life-style It's up to them. When one has to work for something there is a goal. When the goal is met there is satisfaction and dignity. Everyone knows there own passions and skills. Don't need another Government program that directs and tells a person who they are.