Wyoming Governor Mead expects major funding for workforce development to pass Legislature

Despite the state’s major funding shortfalls, Gov. Matt Mead said he expects Wyoming lawmakers to pass a workforce training package worth tens of millions of dollars when they meet this winter.

Mead said that while investing in workforce training, which is a key part of his economic diversity initiative, may be a tough sell, it is essential to helping the state’s economy recover and grow.

"There is a lot of things that look counterintuitive that will get us where we need," Mead told a meeting of the Wyoming Community Development Agency Board on Monday in Casper.

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