Scott Walker Seeks $100 Million For Job Training, Data Tracking

Scott Walker Seeks $100 Million For Job Training, Data Tracking
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker addresses a joint session of the Legislature in the Assembly chambers at the state Capitol, Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013, in Madison, Wis. (AP Photo/Andy Manis)
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker addresses a joint session of the Legislature in the Assembly chambers at the state Capitol, Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013, in Madison, Wis. (AP Photo/Andy Manis)

Madison - To respond to global competition and an aging workforce, Gov. Scott Walker wants to invest nearly $100 million to build a faster system to track jobs data, tie technical school and university funding to filling high-demand professions and require nearly 76,000 people to train for work to collect food stamps.

The sweeping proposals - some of the biggest in worker training in more than a decade - would expand the Medical College of Wisconsin to Green Bay and Wausau and draw in millions of dollars in added federal money toward the goal of equipping the workforce for needed jobs as welders, nurses, accountants, machine operators and rural doctors.

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