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To attract businesses and entice others to expand here, this region must be able to provide workers with the skills those businesses need, Hartford City Manager Howard J. Stanback said in kicking off the program run by the city's Employment Resources Development Agency.
Gail C. Champlin, director of the Counseling Center at the Hartford College for Women, agreed, but said the rules controlling the Job Training Partnership Act -- and the largest block of training dollars -- make it tough to find the needed flexibility.
Champlin said that wasn't a problem when the act took effect in the early 1980s. Certain industries were clearly expanding in Connecticut -- for example, cable television -- and her agency could provide a certain number of people each year with the skills to help them land jobs as cable installers.