Workforce Development

Welch: “Now it’s time to have an industrial policy that’s good for workers, and good for America, and good for the economy.”  WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Rural Development, Energy, and Credit, this week joined Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee’s Subcommittee on Rural Development and Energy, joined the Brookings Center on Regulation and Markets to discuss workforce development opportunities in the clean energy transition. Senator Welch highlighted the advantages…

 Legislation would allow families to use ‘529’ education savings accounts to pay for training programs WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) joined Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Mike Braun (R-Ind.) to reintroduce the Freedom to Invest in Tomorrow’s Workforce Act, bipartisan legislation to allow the…