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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Less than five months into the fiscal year, a state-administered program that provides new-job training to the unemployed is broke.
Utah Department of Workforce Services say enrollment in the program funded through the federal Workforce Investment Act was being suspended for the rest of the fiscal year, which ends June 30, 2010.
As Utah's unemployment rate has climbed to 6.2 percent, so many jobless people enlisted in the program that this fiscal year's budget was used up in less than five months.
The program allowed participants to develop job skills through classes offered at community colleges, vocational training institutes or proprietary schools.
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Information from: The Salt Lake Tribune
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