| If you have been unemployed six months or longer | | | | complete the program. |
| and have been actively seeking employment in the | | | | The grant covers ALL TUITION and BOOKS. Nothing |
| same field you were laid-off from, then you might | | | | comes out of your pocket except the cost of |
| want to consider a career change! This is how to | | | | transportation to get to class. |
| make that change: | | | | So, if it looks like you're going to be unemployed for a |
| Every unemployment office in America has access to | | | | LONG TIME, you might as well GO BACK TO |
| a federal program that provides GRANTS (no, not | | | | SCHOOL on the government's dime and get a degree |
| LOANS) that will let you go back to either college, or | | | | or training in something you are REALLY |
| attend a trade school (technical college) so that you | | | | INTERESTED IN DOING for the rest of your life (or at |
| can get FREE training or education to enter a field that | | | | least until you retire). |
| you want to pursue. THIS IS FREE MONEY! | | | | And to you older folks, don't let your AGE become a |
| All you have to do is go to your local unemployment | | | | factor that keeps you away! I went back to Technical |
| office, and ask to speak to someone about the | | | | School at the age of 53 and in May of 2010, will |
| Workforce Investment Act, or "WIA" program | | | | graduate with my Diploma as a Medical Coding and |
| (pronounced "WEE-UH"). | | | | Reimbursement Specialist. And it only took me ONE |
| You will have to attend a few short classes, take a | | | | YEAR! |
| career assessment inventory (gives you an idea what | | | | They have programs that cover a multitude of training |
| type of work you are suited for based on your | | | | programs: nursing, HVAC, truck driving, ASE Certified |
| answers) and then be given a LIST of programs and | | | | Mechanics, graphic arts, beauty school (hairdressers), |
| educational institutions that the WIA program, through | | | | accounting, secretarial, paralegal, and medical assistant, |
| your state, will PAY FOR! The state will GIVE YOU up | | | | to name a few! There are HUNDREDS of programs |
| to two years worth of tuition to attend! Let me say | | | | of study available! |
| this again: IT IS FREE MONEY - A GRANT, THAT | | | | Call or go down to your local unemployment office |
| YOU DO NOT NEED TO REPAY, even if you don't | | | | TODAY and ask about the WIA program. |