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90_HR0505
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1 HOUSE RESOLUTION
2 WHEREAS, The United States General Accounting Office
3 issued a report entitled, "Proprietary Schools; Millions
4 Spent to Train Students for Oversupplied Occupations",
5 claiming that an oversupply of cosmetologists exists; and
6 WHEREAS, In reality, a serious shortage of cosmetologists
7 exists; hundreds of job opportunities in salons are not being
8 filled, which has resulted in salon clients being turned
9 away; and
10 WHEREAS, While compiling data for the report, the General
11 Accounting Office did not talk to anyone in the private
12 sector, including salon owners, trade schools, and state and
13 national associations; and
14 WHEREAS, The report used statistics from state-level
15 labor market data, which are inaccurate because employers and
16 job seekers do not use unemployment offices, employees rarely
17 use Labor Department offices, and employers use direct
18 marketing and classified advertisements instead; and
19 WHEREAS, In counting available places for job openings,
20 the General Accounting Office incorrectly counted each chain
21 of stores as only one entity, when each of their multiple
22 locations should be counted as a separate retail outlet to
23 more accurately reflect the need to fill the multitude of
24 openings that are immediately available; therefore, be it
25 RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
26 NINETIETH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we
27 urge the U.S. Congress to insure that federal financial aid
28 assistance continues for cosmetology training; and be it
29 further
30 RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be
31 delivered to the President pro tempore of the U.S. Senate,
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1 the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, and each
2 member of the Illinois congressional delegation.