The man who wants to replace Ted Strickland as Ohio's next governor was in Youngstown Thursday morning to unveil his plans to overhaul the state's job training programs.
Republican gubernatorial candidate John Kasich and his running mate Mary Taylor appeared at Brilex Industries on the city's lower West Side. They said that although about $150 million a year is spent on close to 50 different job training programs, little is done to help existing workers learn new skills.
Kasich's solution is to create a voucher program to pay for that training.
"They can send you to a community college, they can sent you to a technical school, they can send you to a university, and you get your skills upgraded so that you can become a more valued, highly skilled worker," Kasich said.
This was the third in a series of policy roll-outs by the Kasich campaign. The first was held outside of Columbus.
The former Congressman said the voucher program would be run out of the Governor's office to streamline the job training process using unspent proceeds from the state's new casinos to pay for it. Kasich and Taylor say their plans would eliminate programs that aren't successful, and provide what Kasich called a better "link" between jobs that are available and those who need them.
