PROSPERITY – Gov. Josh Shapiro visited a Greene County career center to highlight investments made in workforce development and job training as a result of the bipartisan 2024-25 budget. The career center provides workforce training for adults, offering a wide range of programs from mechatronics – which combines mechanical engineering, electronics, computer science, and control engineering, to cybersecurity and commercial truck driving.The budget includes a $30 million increase for Career and Technical Education programming and equipment and a $2 million increase in funding for nursing apprenticeships. Investments in career and technical training and vo-tech education, registered apprenticeship programs, and on-the-job training build on the critical investments made last year. Taken together, Gov. Shapiro and legislators have increased funding for workforce development by $61 million in the Governor’s first two years in office – a more than 50% increase.
