Columbian.com - Serving Clark County, Washington: "hell Solar Industries took advantage of state funding to team with Clark College and cross-train several categories of its employees.
Georgia-Pacific created a similar training program with Longview Community College to increase the skills of its younger employees in preparation of a coming wave of retirements.
State employment leaders say expanding that kind of training is in jeopardy because of a two-word phrase contained in federal legislation aimed at reforming the Workforce Investment Act.
The 'charitable choice' language inserted into the House version of the reform bill would allow faith-based organizations to use federal funding to hire only people of their faith.
Critics call that hiring discrimination.
The Senate passed its own version of the reform bill in May, but the issue is now stalled and isn't likely to get another chance at reaching a floor vote until 2007."
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