A measure tucked into the latest FAA Reauthorization will establish a pool of $240 million to lower the cost of flight training and expand the pool of prospective candidates. The new money was championed by Georgia Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock. "This is a long-term issue," Warnock told Yahoo Finance. "We're pulling from too short, too narrow a pool of applicants." The money will be funneled to flight schools and groups focused on flight training, but it's not clear if diversity hiring will be a condition of the funding. It's also not clear how the money will be disbursed.
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