In March, the company announced a program to reduce its payroll by 1,400, or nearly 10 percent.
The program being announced on Thursday is an expansion of current efforts.
He made the visit two months after announcing a $2.3 billion program of tax credits for "green jobs."
It announced a $100 million program to provide three months of living expenses to each victim's family.
Now you're going up there next month, and yesterday you announced a $2.5 billion, five-year program.
No other leading car makers have announced a similar program, and they say it is unnecessary.
City and state officials recently announced a program to make $10 million available to institutions that could find matching private grants.
"They could have announced a three- or a five-year program," he added.
The details of the program announced by President Bush have yet to be worked out.
In 1971, he announced a program to train people from the communities served by the groups and to prepare them for board roles.
