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NAWB Press Release on the Assistant Secretary of Labor’s Nomination
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  • February 14, 2025
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  • Press Release

February 14, 2025 —  President Trump nominated Henry Mack III to serve as the next Assistant Secretary of Labor, leading the Department’s Employment and Training Administration. Mack has extensive experience in workforce development, previously serving on CareerSource Florida’s state workforce board and as a Chancellor of Florida’s Department of Education. Mack’s nomination to Assistant Secretary will require Senate confirmation– timing for which is […]

NAWB Announces Changes to Board of Directors

January 17, 2025 — The National Association of Workforce Boards (NAWB) today announced that two members of its Board of Directors, Kathy Jewett and Debra Giordano have stepped down from their roles for personal reasons. Al Searles, a member of the board’s executive committee, has been elected to the Vice Chair position vacated by Jewett […]

A New Year’s Message from Brad Turner-Little
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  • January 3, 2025
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  • Blog

To start 2025, I’ve been looking at the various predictions being made for the coming year. I’ve found bold predictions about space travel, logical ones about demographics, and ones that have made me chuckle. While they come from different people with different points of view, one through-line that shows up in (almost) all of them […]

How Colorado is Supporting Older Workers
  • By NAWB
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  • December 23, 2024
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  • Success Story

Workforce Challenge: Jobseekers at several Pikes Peak Workforce Center events had mentioned challenges with finding positions as an older worker. In conjunction with its already popular Beyond Age (55+) workshops, the Center created the Beyond Age Job Fair in August of 2024. Workforce Solution: The Center sent out a newsletter containing the benefits of hiring […]

Continuing Resolution passes without WIOA reauthorization
  • By NAWB
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  • December 20, 2024
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  • News

Dec. 20, 2024 – The 118th Congress will conclude without having completed work to reauthorize the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA). This leaves our nation’s public workforce system once again at a crossroads as workforce development boards look ahead to the future. WIOA was last updated in 2014 with an authorization period of five years, […]

Congress Proposes New CR, Does Not Include WIOA Reauthorization
  • By NAWB
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  • December 19, 2024
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  • News

Dec. 19, 2024 — Late this afternoon, Congress released a new draft of the Continuing Resolution (CR) to continue funding the government through March 14. This new bill does not contain A Stronger Workforce for America Act (ASWA), which would have reauthorized the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) through 2030. (Note: This is a reversal from the initial CR released earlier […]

Congress Releases the Legislative Text of the Continuing Resolution; ASWA is Included
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  • December 18, 2024
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Dec. 18, 2024 — Yesterday, Congress released the legislative text of the Continuing Resolution (CR) to extend funding for the current fiscal year until March 14, 2025. The bill includes a number of pending pieces of legislation, including A Stronger Workforce for America (ASWA), which reauthorizes the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) through 2030. The inclusion of ASWA in […]