Jobs & Education

WASHINGTON – Today, Representative Josh Harder (CA-9), a member of the powerful House Appropriations Committee, highlighted the $3.8 million community project funding (CPF) he secured to expand Delta College’s nursing program. The money is going to enable Delta College to upgrade and expand the program’s state-of-the-art simulation labs, where students can practice their clinical training on life-like ‘patient mannequins’ and receive detailed feedback about their work.

WASHINGTON – Today, Reps. Josh Harder (CA-9), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA-1), Lucy McBath (D-GA-7), and Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-OR-5) introduced the Youth Workforce Readiness Act. Many employers in Northern California are struggling to fill positions because the jobs require skill sets that can’t be gained without additional training or education.

WASHINGTON – Today, Representative Josh Harder sent a letter to Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Jennifer Granholm urging the Department to immediately begin using Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funds to upgrade Heating, Ventilation, and Air-Conditioning (HVAC) systems in schools across the country, including the Central Valley. Rep. Harder and his brother both experienced childhood asthma growing up in the Central Valley.

WASHINGTON – Today, Representative Josh Harder announced that Opportunity Stanislaus will receive a $1.2 million grant to help establish VOLT on the Go, a mobile workforce development program designed to provide manufacturing job training to workers in the Central Valley. The grant is funded by the American Rescue Plan, which Rep. Harder voted to pass last year.The grant will be matched by $326,120 in local funds and is expected to create 100 new jobs.

WASHINGTON – Today, Representative Josh Harder announced that Modesto Junior College’s Upward Bound program will receive $631,819 from the Department of Education. 

WASHINGTON – Last night, the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) passed the House. The bill includes two of Rep. Harder’s amendments that are critical to ensuring everyone in the Central Valley has access to a good paying job.

WASHINGTON – Today, Representative Josh Harder voted to pass the Restaurant Revitalization Fund Replenishment Actto replenish the relief fund with an additional $42 billion and provide $13 billion to establish a new program for small businesses with less than 200 employees that lost revenue during the Covid-19 pandemic.

WASHINGTON – Yesterday, Representative Josh Harder sent a letter to Small Business Administrator (SBA) Isabel Guzman calling out the agency for failing to track demographic data for the recipients of the $357 billion COVID relief dollars dispersed by the SBA. By failing to track this data, Harder's letter states, the program neglected underserved business owners across the Central Valley.