Supporters of the Work Opportunity Tax Credit program have successfully secured a meeting time with the US Department of Labor’s Assistant Secretary Jane Oats.   Ms. Oats is Assistant Secretary for the DOL’s Employment and Training Administration (“ETA).
In the wake of the Department of Labor’s recent OMB recommendation to terminate the program, WOTC advocates hope to persuade DOL officials to more actively support renewal and funding of the WOTC program with Congress.
WOTC is currently slated to expire on December 31, 2011. A bill to reauthorize and extend WOTC through 2014 was introduced on June 1st and subsequently referred to committee on June 24th.
HR 2082, or the Work Opportunity Credit Improvements Act, was sponsored by Representative Aaron Schock (Rep, IL) and currently has 6 cosponsors. These include:
* Charles Gonzalez Dem, TX
* John Lewis Dem, GA
* Ronald Paul Rep, TX
* Charles Rangel Dem, NY
* Edolphus Towns Dem, NY
* Allen West Rep, FL
The WOTC Coalition is calling on supporters to contact their own members of Congress and to urge them to become cosponsors of the bill.  See previous post.