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The White House on Monday unveiled the winners of the fourth and final round of Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training grants. This year $450 million went to nearly 270 community colleges that volunteered to work with 400 employers to train displaced workers for high-skill, high-wage occupations.

All told, nearly $2 billion in job-training grants have been awarded under the program, which was created as part of the 2009 economic stimulus legislation. A searchable and sortable database of all the recipients can be found here.

Now that the program is complete, we can ask: Where’d the money flow? Grants have gone to colleges in every state, though some states have received more than others, as the map below shows. Missouri institutions, for example, got $68 million, while those in neighboring Iowa got just over half of that. Ohio got more than three times as much as next-door Indiana. California, not surprisingly, made out the best, taking home $88.6 million over four years.

Read more at The Chronicle of Higher Education: https://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/4-years-and-2-billion-in-community-college-training-grants-state-by-state/87007

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