{"id":339284,"date":"2021-03-01T06:00:08","date_gmt":"2021-02-28T20:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=339284"},"modified":"2021-03-01T06:00:08","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T20:00:08","slug":"usdol-awards-1-7m-to-guam-to-support-jobs-amid-the-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/usdol-awards-1-7m-to-guam-to-support-jobs-amid-the-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"USDOL awards $1.7M to Guam\u00a0to  support jobs amid the pandemic\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Labor announced Friday additional funding of $1,767,172 to the Government of Guam\u2019s Department of Administration to\u00a0respond to the workforce needs resulting from the coronavirus pandemic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Administered by the department\u2019s\u00a0Employment and Training Administration, the grant award allows\u00a0participants to continue disaster-relief employment in positions addressing pandemic cleanup and humanitarian activities, as well as assisting in the delivery of employment and training services to eligible individuals.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Emergency declarations issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Federal Emergency Management Agency enable Guam to request this funding.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Supported by the\u00a0Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, Dislocated Worker Grants temporarily expand the service capacity of dislocated worker programs at the state and local levels by providing funding assistance in response to large, unexpected economic events that cause significant job losses. (PR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Labor announced Friday additional funding of $1,767,172 to the Government of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":330354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[51,8220],"class_list":["post-339284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-guam","tag-usdol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}