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U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright, D-8, Moosic, joined representatives from For Our Future PA and The Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center, and state labor leaders to discuss the impact President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better agenda would have on residents in Northeast Pennsylvania during a virtual panel discussion Thursday morning.

Cartwright noted the Build Back Better Act would implement training programs to prepare workers for high-quality jobs in growing sectors such as public health, child care, manufacturing, information technology, education and clean energy.

He feels Pennsylvania’s economy has begun to bounce back from the pandemic with nearly 100,000 jobs being recovered across the state, but it still has a ways to go.

Cartwright said many employers in the region continue to struggle finding workers to fill skilled jobs available.

“Funding for federal job training programs has dropped by nearly half since the beginning of this century,” he said. “Together, the bipartisan infrastructure bill and the Build Back Better Act are a formula for more better-paying jobs. Not only will the investments in our infrastructure bill create new construction jobs, but the Build Back Better Act will also reverse the hollowing out of federal job training initiatives.”

Cartwright is hopeful votes on the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill and $1.85 trillion Build Back Better Act will soon be made in the House of Representatives.