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“font-size: 9pt; color: black; font-family:”>Congressman Wm. Lacy Clay (D) Missouri announced yesterday (Thurs., Sept. 22) that the U.S. Department of Commerce has awarded a $1.7 million grant to expand the Metropolitan Education and Training Center in Wellston, Missouri.
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The
center, located at the former Wagner Electric Plant, is one of the
nation’s leading centers
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for green
job training and has established the acclaimed “Pathways Out of
Poverty” program that is training and re-training unemployed
workers for 21st Century jobs.
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“This is a
real boost to the MET Center’s ongoing mission of job training that
our community urgently needs,” said the Congressman.
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Commerce Department’s Economic Development Authority will allow the
MET Center to expand classrooms and install a new wet lab to
support job training in life sciences and biotechnology…two of
the St. Louis region’s most vital economic growth
sectors.”
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The grant
application was submitted by St. Louis County’s Land Clearance for
Redevelopment Authority.
The MET Center is a one-stop, comprehensive workforce development
initiative that serves unemployed and underemployed individuals in
the greater St. Louis region.