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Article: Agency helping the disabled find jobs reduces waiting list
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- May 17, 2001
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Agency helping the disabled find jobs reduces waiting list
Thursday, May 17, 2001
More than 6,100 people with disabilities have been removed since
January from the waiting list for a state program that helps disabled
people find and keep jobs.
The waiting list for services through the Division of Vocational
Rehabilitation has been pared due to an infusion of funding, said
Department of Workforce Development Secretary Jennifer Reinert. A
shortfall forced officials in August to stop accepting new clients.
But $500,000 in emergency funding approved in December by the
Legislature, along with ...