Vincent Boudreau
Hello Campus Community,
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand have secured $1.5 million in the Fiscal Year 2024 appropriations package to boost skills-based workforce development at The City College of New York situated Rangel Infrastructure Workforce Development Initiative. The funding will support CCNY as it seeks to expand skills-based training on campus for low-income New Yorkers in the form of increased access to computer labs, instruments, trainers, and career opportunities.
This is a major development that will further enhance the College’s reputation as a leading driver of social mobility. For example, it will raise the annual household income of families with one or more members who will receive the training at CCNY and land employment critical to improving the city’s infrastructure as a result. In addition, the project's importance to the city is linked to its potential to enable low-income New Yorkers to become highly skilled in the most in-demand occupations. It will also increase the local workforce hiring pool for employers, enabling them to scale up operations and create even more jobs in the process. It promises to empower the economically disadvantaged, including minorities, women, veterans, the formerly incarcerated, and recent high school graduates, by improving equity of opportunity in a historically unequal infrastructure labor market.
I am deeply grateful for Sen. Schumer’s leadership and initiative in securing the $1.5 million appropriation to support the operation of the Charles B. Rangel Infrastructure Workforce Initiative. This money will ensure that the Rangel Center continues to fulfill its crucial mission of preparing a diversified and democratically constituted workforce for the crucial, patriotic work of rebuilding America’s Infrastructure. Not only is this support crucial to the functioning and expansion of the Rangel Center, it’s a moving testimony to our elected officials’ attention to the welfare of our community and our educational institutions.
Sincerely,
Vince Boudreau