Maine’s Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD) is looking to spend an estimated $2.7 million in grants on efforts to attract “racial, ethnic, and linguistic minorities” into the state’s workforce, according to a Request for Applications (RFA) document published by the Mills administration last week.
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The Mills administration is seeking applications for up to twelve projects which will “broaden the talent pool of key industries by improving equitable workforce participation of racial, ethnic, and linguistic minorities at Maine employers,” the document states.
The funding of these initiatives, the Maine DECD claims, will help Gov. Janet Mills (D) meet the goals laid out in her administration’s Economic Development Strategy, which set a goal of attracting 75,000 new workers into the state’s labor force by 2029.
To that end, the Mills administration stated that “historically marginalized communities” are a “crucial focus” for its workforce participation efforts.
The Maine DECD will be accepting applications until Sept. 9 for up to twelve projects across three separate categories, with an estimated total of $2.7 million available in grants.
Maine-based businesses, nonprofit organizations, school districts, and local or county governments are all eligible to apply for the grants, but are required in their application to “[p]ropose activities that will improve equitable access to workforce participation for racial, ethnic, and/or linguistic minorities in Maine.”
Last week’s RFA comes after the Mills administration revealed that they were planning to spend $2.5 million on a two-year marketing campaign to grow Maine’s “racial, ethnic, and multilingual workforce.”
First, becoming a citizen of the United States of America requires that one can speak and understand ENGLISH!
Secondly, one should assimilate to the culture and traditions of the USA, if you legally enter the country. That does not mean they can fly their flags, celebrate their traditions.
Why should we spend money to teach something that should already be known????
Not one word mentioned by Mills on hiring people based on MERIT or QUALIFICATIONS let alone whether or not they’re here LEGALLY. What a disgrace and so are her supporters!
the great replacement in full swing. picked politicians, selected not elected, just puppets.wild times
When is Milles going to put Tampons in the your schools boys room?
If we want Maine to be grate again get rid of Mills.
Next she will tell us she was depoyed.
Not to racist…
Does speaking arcadian french count?
How about you cut welfare/general assistance and put those people to work? Honestly any ILLEGAL ALIENS you bring in are going to end up on welfare/GA anyway. If you are on welfare/GA a job should be mandatory. The DemocRATS-Marxists get worse everyday. Happy people of Maine? Because you are paying for all this.
Oh now they’re 75,000 “workers”!
The majority of illegals are not working and those who are are mostly women and older men. The others hang out at the Ptld Library or spend their days shopping and shoplifting.
Even if they do work, those jobs are most likely minimum wage or not much more and they still be on welfare and in housing at our expense.
Even though hiring based on skin color or gender, etc is illegal, the Dirty Dems and RINOs come right out and say that’s what they’re doing with no fear of legal action.
I have interacted with many state workers in the past 20 yrs. Some of them have been very considerate while some others have the typical attitude where they do not care what the public thinks or wants. Of course being in the union most all of them are loyal dem voters.
“Linguistic minorities” is a cute little phrase. This of course is a DEI description of people who cannot speak english. How is that going to work out? How many of these people will only be there for the money and could care less if they do anything.
They have got to restart AMHI and put the looney Mills and her administration in there for long enough for state government to return to sanity. If that is really possible. She is a blooming leftist idiot with tons of idiotic ideas. One never knows what insanity she will come out with next.
The whole idea is to replace whitey with the browns and it seems to be working as whites are barely reproducing at a replacement rat, if that. At least that has been the trend for quite some time. Looks like Millsey is on board with the plan as is the WEF. Keep them poor and you keep them controlled.
You know a real governor might ask for that money to be used as in incentive or signing bonus to lure the best, most qualified people with a history of performance. This one just pisses it away with a hope of return. No one in Vegas would take that bet.
Where is Paul. Lepage when we need him ?
We need to vote the democrats OUT in November .
Wake up and look at what is going on in the UK that is what is headed our way … It is called White Genocide … These Sub Saharan Africans are incapable of living in a Western Civilization . They are incapable of performing the most rudimentary acts required of a civilized person . They are Tribal and will not assimilate in Western Society..
Gov. Mills. I DO NOT support those who attacked the USA on 9/11.
Gov. Mills why does UP Harris support CORE? Please ask her as she will not answer the press.