The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act funds training through local workforce boards, and the list of approved providers is public. It is not a loan. Eligibility is broader than most people assume and the office that decides it is in your county. CareerOneStop finds it by ZIP.
For this occupation specifically
66,000 people do this work. 36.8% are women and 11.4% are Hispanic, so roughly 2,769 are Latina. BLS describes the usual way in as portfolio-first; no degree required by most employers.
Sources. Employment totals and the share of each
occupation that is women and that is Hispanic: US Bureau of Labor Statistics,
Current Population Survey annual
averages, reproduced as published. The Latina share is an estimate: BLS publishes the two shares
separately and not their intersection, so the two are multiplied and labelled as such everywhere it
appears. County economic type: USDA Economic Research Service County Typology Codes; labour markets:
2020 Commuting Zones. Funded training routes: WIOA through local workforce boards, registered
apprenticeships via apprenticeship.gov, and federal student aid via studentaid.gov. We publish the
source so the arithmetic can be checked rather than trusted.