Jobs & 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 Act to 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.

WASHINGTON – Today, Representative Josh Harder announced that California added 32,600 manufacturing jobs in 2021, according to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Rep. Harder helped Central Valley manufacturers create and restore jobs by passing the American Rescue Plan and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. He is also working to create even more domestic manufacturing jobs by passing the America COMPETES Act which will supercharge American manufacturing and strengthen the supply chain.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Representative Josh Harder introduced a bill, the Improving Mental Health in Schools Act, which will allow more mental health practitioners to work in schools across the Central Valley.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Representative Josh Harder voted to pass the America Creating Opportunities for Manufacturing, Pre-Eminence in Technology and Economic Strength (COMPETES) Act of 2022. The bill includes a historic investment to surge production of American-made semiconductors, implement new efforts to tackle supply chain vulnerabilities to make more goods in America, turbocharges America's scientific research and technological leadership, and strengthens America's economic and national security at home and abroad.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Representative Josh Harder (D-CA) continued to build on his efforts to address the truck driver shortage and bring costs down for Valley families by introducing a bill to cut red tape in the licensing process for America's drivers.

WASHINGTON — Today, Representative Josh Harder congratulated Alma Lopez, Livingston Union School District's school counseling coordinator and Ripon native, for winning the 2022 School Counselor of the Year Award. She is the first Latina and the first Californian to win the award. Read the full announcement from the American School Counselor Association online here.