Bill > HR6623

This bill, the WORKER Act (Working On Rewarding and Keeping Employees Resilient Act), aims to advance STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education, provide for improved worker training, retention, and advancement, and establish the Distressed Community Investment Agency to promote venture capital investment in distressed communities. Key provisions include: - Authorizing grant programs to expand engineering education programs in elementary and secondary schools, as well as maker education and makerspaces. - Establishing a grant program to promote industry or sector partnerships that engage in collaborative planning, resource alignment, and training efforts across multiple businesses in targeted infrastructure industries. - Requiring states to provide a reemployment bonus program for unemployment insurance recipients who become reemployed within 12 weeks. - Allowing the use of Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act funds for wage insurance programs and training vouchers. - Establishing the Distressed Community Investment Agency within the Department of Commerce (to be redesignated as the Department of Innovation and Investment) to promote venture capital investment in distressed communities.

Agriculture and Natural Resources, Business and Industry, Education

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/6623/all-info