National Workforce Development Campaign: Let Policy Makers Know the Value of your Workforce Organization The National Association of Workforce Boards’ (NAWB) announced its Workforce Investment Works Campaign —a storytelling Website to help America understand the services and value propositions of the workforce investment system. The Website houses an Intranet that allows success stories to be [...]
PERFECT TIMING Implications of the general election for the future of workforce development programs and funding will be a key focus of the NWA Legislative Leadership Conference, in Tampa, FL, The NWA Legislative Leadership Conference will be your first peek into the dramatic changes we can expect. With Republicans gaining 60+ seats in the House [...]
Washington, D.C. – House Republican leaders today established a committee to manage the transition to a new majority in the U.S. House of Representatives for the 112th Congress, naming Congressman Greg Walden (R-OR) to serve as transition chairman. The Majority Transition Committee will review all House procedures and structures, with the goal of ensuring the [...]
Indeed’s October Industry Trends show a third straight month of year-over-year job posting growth in every major industry that we track. Strong Job posting growth also occurred over the prior quarter and month. Manufacturing and Information Technology saw the largest percentage increase in job postings over one quarter, at 33% and 31% respectively. Real estate [...]
Project GATE (Growing America Through Entrepreneurship) was initiated in 2002 to help emerging entrepreneurs create, sustain, and/or expand their existing small business. Project GATE was implemented as an experimental research demonstration in seven urban/rural sites in three states (Minnesota, Maine, and Pennsylvania). In these demonstration sites, approximately 4,000 individuals applied for Project GATE services. Half [...]
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FedEx Corp. will pay the state of Montana a $2.3 million settlement over misclassification of FedEx Ground drivers as independent contractors, Montana Attorney General Steve Bullock announced Oct. 21. The settlement follows a yearlong investigation by Montana that found FedEx Ground drivers are employees, not independent contractors, and that FedEx owed unemployment taxes, penalties and [...]
More than $727 million in grants from the Affordable Care Act to upgrade and expand community health centers Funds will provide care for an additional 745,000 underserved patients HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced awards of $727 million to 143 community health centers across the country to address pressing construction and renovation needs and expand [...]
Results of Second Quarter Employment and Sales Survey U.S. staffing companies reported strong growth in the number of temporary workers employed in the second quarter of this year, compared with the same period last year, according to survey data released by the American Staffing Association. America’s staffing companies employed an average of 2.4 million temporary [...]
Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis has established a vision for the Department of “good jobs for everyone”. The Employment and Training Administration’s (ETA’s) workforce programs have a critical role to play in realizing the Secretary’s vision of good jobs by supporting three strategic and seven outcome goals for the Department of Labor. Download a [...]
