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Article: Department Of Labor Invests $17.2M In Biotech Personnel.
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- BIOWORLD Today
- Article date:
- November 3, 2009
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Washington Editor
WASHINGTON - Responding to the growing number of jobs in the biotechnology industry, the U.S. Department of Labor is investing $17.2 million in model projects designed to train future biotech workers.
The industry, identified by the government as one of the fastest-growing sectors in the U.S. economy, has quadrupled in size since 1992, Emily DeRocco, assistant secretary of labor for employment and training, told BioWorld Today. Furthermore, by 2007, the Department of Labor expects the U.S. industry to employ about 815,000 people. (That's up from about 700,000 in 2002, the most recent statistic.)
Therefore, the industry, via the ...