Raja Update 4/25

 

Dear Friend,

We hope all is well with you and your family, and that you are safe and healthy.

This week, Congressman Krishnamoorthi celebrated securing $1 million dollars in funding for Hire 360, a skills-based training and business development center aimed at helping women and minorities enter the construction industry in the Chicago area. WBBM Radio noted Congressman Raja's keen focus on the skills-based education that this center will help provide. The Congressman told reporters, "Two thirds of Americans don't have a four year college degree, and for them we have neglected our post secondary education system for way too long -- but that stops now." Hire 360 is instrumental in the effort to train and develop employees in industries significantly affected by COVID-19, including the construction, manufacturing, and hospitality sectors. West Suburban Journal detailed the advantages of this Hire 360 center, which has multi-use conference and meeting space, working space for 37 trades, a playroom and parents center for working professionals, retail space for diverse suppliers, and more.

Congressman Raja also joined WGN Host Lisa Dent to speak about his work helping secure federal funding for the Wood Dale public library recently. The Congressman told Lisa, "Wood Dale is a community that really cares about early childhood learning so they built this beautiful early learning center at their public library, it turns out it's at full capacity and can only cater to about sixteen percent of the children in the community... They applied for a grant through our community project funding program, which for the first time this year awarded grants to local governments and nonprofits, and other institutions, and I was able to secure a $225,000 grant to expand their early learning center." 

WBBM radio hosts also reported on Congressman Krishnamoorthi joining other Illinois lawmakers at Provident Hospital to celebrate passage of the Dr. Lorna Breen Act, legislation championed by Congressman Krishnamoorthi that provides mental health resources for frontline healthcare workers. The Congressman said, "We refer to our health care workers as heroes, but as you know they're human beings too. Like all human beings, they bear the struggles and the burdens that all the rest of us have during this pandemic, but they have had to endure even more hardship in that they have exposed themselves repeatedly to the risks of COVID-19 while treating people, and of course they have exposed their families too." 

We will continue to bring you news about Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi's work in D.C. and Illinois.
 
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