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Article: Job-training aid for military spouses in jeopardy; Program is viewed as retention tool, but officials do not intend to renew its federal grant
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- May 1, 2006
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WASHINGTON (AP) - When her husband's Air Force job took him to
Colorado, Vydia Torres became a cashier just so she could join him
even though her resume included stints as Puerto Rico's housing
secretary and the head of a nonprofit group.
"I did not have the network. I did not know the labor market,"
Torres says of her move in 1993. Military spouses face similar career
dilemmas, she said, because they relocate so much.
Today, Torres heads a Colorado Springs, Colo., program - also in
place in a half-dozen communities nationwide - that helps military
spouses with job training, placement, tuition and child care.
Despite its popularity, the initiative is in jeopardy because
government officials ...