LIVINGSTON (AP) -- Extensive job training assistance is available, after all, for the 51 people thrown out of work with closure of a Paradise Valley business that made massage tables and related equipment.

Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., announced the help available through a U.S. Department of Labor program for people left jobless because of foreign competition. The announcement replaces an earlier decision that former workers of Golden Ratio Woodworks were ineligible for the program.

Golden Ratio closed in January after operating in the Emigrant area for at least 15 years.

The Montana Job Service in Livingston said the laid-off workers can get up to two years of training, plus unemployment benefits and perhaps money for housing. An information session about the program is scheduled here Wednesday.

Funding for the program is through the Department of Labor's Trade Adjustment Assistance project.

In a recent announcement in the Federal Register, the Labor Department noted that Golden Ratio still exists but has licensed the patents to another company, and its products are now produced mostly in China.

Gail Habener of the Job Service in Livingston said the training assistance is open to Golden Ratio workers laid off as far back as Jan. 23, 2006.

For workers who are older than 50 and unable to find jobs with comparable wages, the program could subsidize their current wages to match what they were paid at Golden Ratio, she said.

Golden Ratio employees David Giambra and his wife, Alexandria, said Friday they were mulling their options.

''I'm going to look into it,'' said David Giambra, who has been doing odd jobs since he lost his purchasing and receiving job in January.

''It's kind of a surprise to me that all of a sudden it's happening,'' he said.