Trump budget would eliminate job training program for seniors

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CBS Moneywatch - 5/25/2017 - AP - HARRISBURG, Pa. - Nathan Singletary is beyond the traditional retirement age, but he's only just beginning a new career - helping other low-income, unemployed Americans over age 55 find jobs. Singletary got his job through the half-century-old Senior Community Service Employment Program, a training and placement program underwritten by taxpayers aimed at putting older Americans back into the workforce. President Donald Trump says there are too few participants who find work that's not paid for by the federal government. This week, he proposed deleting the $434 million program from the federal budget - a strike at a piece of President Lyndon Johnson's "war on poverty." Read more @ http://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-budge ... r-seniors/