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WASHINGTON – Today the National Association of State Workforce Agencies (NASWA) released its 2019 legislative priorities. NASWA’s legislative priorities highlight initiatives focused on ensuring states’ workforce development efforts meet the needs of employers and improve the overall skill...

On Thursday, March 13, a group of 10 U.S. Senators led by Jack Reed (D-RI) and Dean Heller (R-NV) announced an agreement to reauthorize the Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) program for five months. The bill, the Emergency Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2014 (S. 2148), ...

On Thursday, November 21st, several states, led by the Chair and Vice Chair of NASWA’s Unemployment Insurance Committee, Bruce Madson (OH) and Jay Rowell (IL) respectively met with Congressional staff on the Senate Committee on Finance, which has jurisdiction over the Unemployment Insuranc...

Brooke Lucas of Atlanta, chief of staff for the Georgia Department of Labor (GDOL), has been named one of Georgia Trend magazine’s “Forty Under Forty.” Each year, the magazine recognizes outstanding Georgians under the age of 40 representing business, government, politics, nonprofits, scie...