Labor Budget Cut 5%, Safety Spending to Rise in Obama 2012 Plan

[Joanne98]

Source: Bloomberg

President Barack Obama proposed cutting the Labor Department’s budget 5.4 percent to $12.8 billion, calling for a shift in funding to mine safety and other worker protection initiatives and away from some job creation programs deemed redundant.

Labor Department discretionary spending for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1 would drop from $13.6 billion in 2010, the last time agencies had an enacted budget, according to Obama’s budget outline released today.

The savings reflect a shift in funding away from job- training programs that are “underutilized,” the administration said in its budget proposal.

A program called Job Corps, which helps train low-income young people, gets a proposed 25 percent cut in its construction budget.



Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-14/labor-budget-cut-5-safety-spending-to-rise-in-obama-2012-plan.html

[rurallib]

1. hope there is some money in there to prosecute the likes

of Don Blankenship et al.
The best thing they could do for mine safety is to put some CEOs in jail.