In this tumultuous time, the Reconnecting Youth Campaign must consider additional means of creating 1 million opportunities for reconnection to education and employment. Appropriations for existing federal programs will remain RYC’s primary focus, but changes to policies related to workforce development, higher education, labor, and tax policy may all prove fruitful ways to unlock more opportunities.

President Trump’s budget contains a proposal to lump many workforce-development programs into a single line item, “Make America Skilled Again” (MASA).  MASA would likely end access to job training for Opportunity Youth (OY) in much of the country. This post explains how.