A Phoenix subcommittee wants to tailor a $10 million workforce program specifically toward working parents, even if means taking longer to distribute the funding as a plan is conceived.
There was some confusion Tuesday between the three-person Phoenix Workforce Ad Hoc Committee and staff of how much parents would be featured in the $10 million program, paid for with federal coronavirus relief funds from the American Rescue Plan Act. Mayor Kate Gallego said she’d thought the entire program would be tailored toward parents.
“I think at least for some of us, being a parent was very hard during the pandemic, and some people had to leave the workforce to care for children, and I thought this would be maybe a chance to really invest in those parents and give them more support and a chance to make a major career switch to a new program,” Gallego said during the Tuesday meeting.
