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Montana’s Republican Legislators shift $6M from workforce training grants to biz automation loans

September 20, 2022/

Montana State Legislature

Citing sparse interest in workforce training grants, Republican state lawmakers and administration officials on Tuesday moved to shift $6 million in federal funding from that program to one that would provide interest-free loans to Montana businesses to automate manufacturing processes.

But Democratic legislators and labor representatives objected to the proposal, arguing that the limited applications for the workforce training program were due to an onerous application process, a lack of advertising for the grants and a low ceiling on the amount of grant money per worker.

 


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