SYRACUSE, N.Y. (NCC News) – New York State Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul announced $9 million in funding as part of the state’s Workforce Development Initiative on Monday.
Lieutenant Governor Hochul held a press conference at TTM Technologies in East Syracuse to announce the grant. TTM Technologies is one of 66 businesses across New York that will receive funding from the state.
“We’re very, very focused on ‘Building Back Better,’ and that’s not just a slogan,” Hochul said. “That really, truly means we have to figure out ways to learn any lessons from this pandemic that can make us do things even better and smarter.”
The funding from the Workforce Development Initiative will help businesses and organizations to increase employment and train employees.
“When I was a student at Syracuse University, we were taught that full employment was 4 percent, and we hit those numbers just a few short months ago,” Hochul said. “We’re not prepared to cede any ground here, we fought too hard to get here.”
According to Hochul, the grant will help to train 3,600 New York residents and hopes the initiative will encourage those affected by the pandemic find employment.
“We’re not just going to limp back to a ‘new normal,'” Hochul said. “We’re going to burst into a ‘new normal.'”
The grant provided TTM Technologies over $118,000 to allow for new hiring and job training for the business’ production of defense and aerospace technology.
