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The full House Appropriations Committee marked up its FY27 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations bill throughout the day yesterday—legislation which provides funding for the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) along with other critical workforce development programs. Late last night, the full committee advanced this proposal along party lines (34-28), without making substantive changes to the proposed funding […]
Last Week, the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies released its FY27 funding bill, which proposes to cut the U.S. Department of Labor’s budget to $9.8 billion–a reduction of $3.7 billion or 27 percent below the currently enacted level. The deepest proposed cuts would impact the public workforce […]
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued an Interim Final Rule regarding new requirements that certain adult Medicaid applicants and prospective enrollees meet an 80-hour per month work requirement as a condition for eligibility. The rule implements this new requirement created by last year’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OB3). Under the […]
Acting Secretary of Labor Keith Sonderling appeared on Tuesday before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor–HHS–Education to justify the Administration’s FY27 budget request and outline its vision for the nation’s workforce system. MASA Block Grant Takes Center Stage Sonderling highlighted the Administration’s signature workforce proposal, the Make America Skilled Again (MASA) block grant, as the […]
The U.S. Department of Education announced on Monday that it will publish the final rule implementing the new Workforce Pell Grant program in the Federal Register tomorrow, May 19, 2026. The program, authorized under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act enacted last summer, extends Pell Grant eligibility to shorter-term, high‑quality workforce training programs beginning July […]
National Apprenticeship Week always feels a little different when you work in this field. For many people, it’s a chance to learn what apprenticeship is. But for those of us in workforce development, it’s something else entirely. It’s a moment to reflect on what we’ve seen work again and again in communities across the country. […]
Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chairman Bill Cassidy (R-LA) introduced two related bills aimed at strengthening Registered Apprenticeship Programs (RAPs) this week. The introduction of this legislation coincides with the start of National Apprenticeship Week (NAW), which continues through May 2. The first bill, the Apprenticeship Data Value Improvements to Create Employment (ADVICE) Act, co-authored by Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), would establish […]
On Tuesday, the House Education and the Workforce Committee approved H.R. 8210, A Stronger Workforce for America Act of 2026 (ASWA 2026) by a party line vote of 19-14. As we have previously reported, the bill would reauthorize the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) and reflects many provisions included in earlier versions of the bill considered […]
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