State job-training bill needed to put more to work

California is a state full of opportunity unlike any other, but it also possesses its own set of unique challenges. California’s poverty rate is 23.4 percent, according to the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality, while 823,000 families in the state earn less than $15,000 annually from low-wage, low-skill jobs, the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey reports.
The California Workforce Association is the membership organization of over 100 workforce development boards a