New York state recently announced $1.2 million in job training grants are available for businesses that hire long-term unemployed New Yorkers. The grant is geared to connecting people who have been unemployed for 26 weeks or longer with available jobs in the region.
So far, more than 600 businesses have taken advantage of about $8.2 million in job training incentives to hire more than 1,200 people in the state.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the monetary incentive allows “businesses to hire and train New Yorkers who have been unemployed for at least half a year” and encourages the unemployed to “explore the wide range of available employment services.”
The state’s outreach effort begins this week with the Department of Labor emailing survey questions to the unemployed  and providing job search services that prepare them to visit any of the 96 career centers in the state.
