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The National Association of Workforce Boards (NAWB) today announced the recipients of the 2025 NAWB Awards: Excellence in Community College Partnership, the Laurie Moran Partnership Award, WIOA Trailblazer, W.O. Lawton, and the Workforce Advocacy and Policy Award. The winners for the NAWB Awards were chosen by a subcommittee of NAWB’s board of directors. Maricopa County […]
March 10, 2025 — Today, the U.S. Senate voted 67-32 to confirm President Trump’s choice to lead the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL). Lori Chavez-DeRemer, a former mayor of Happy Valley, OR and former Republican member of the House of Representatives, is expected to be sworn in tomorrow (Tuesday, March 11) and begin her service at DOL […]
March 7, 2025 — Workforce boards in communities all across this country strive every day to connect work opportunities and jobseekers. They help businesses – tens of thousands of small and medium sized companies that are our economy’s backbone – fill their talent needs, to the tune of over 1 million jobs filled every year. […]
March 5, 2025 — The House Education and Workforce Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development held a hearing, Strengthening WIOA: Improving Outcomes for America’s Workforce. Subcommittee Chairman Burgess Owens (R-UT) opened the hearing by noting, “a strong workforce development system is vital to growing our economy and providing economic opportunity for every American.” Owens further noted that reforms […]
A robust workforce system requires well organized orchestration, customer centricity in its services, and agility for changing economic conditions March 4, 2025 — Those of us in the workforce development space know that the 118th Congress came “just this close” to reauthorizing the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) through a bill titled A Stronger […]
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