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  For Immediate Release WASHINGTON – The National Association of State Workforce Agencies (NASWA) today announced the appointment of Chairpersons to its Policy Committees of the membership. These individuals, selected from across the U.S. to serve as Committee Chairpersons, are as f...

Combined presentations from Tobi Cates (Wyoming Department of Workforce Services), Katie Houghlin (Kentucky Office of Employment and Training), Chuck Ross (Texas Workforce Commission) and Patrick Smith's (Louisiana Workforce Commission) presentations from the Pursuing Recovery of UI Debt w...

Robert Pavosevich (U.S. Department of Labor), Dale Smith (Mississippi Department of Employment Security) and Patsy Westcott's (Alaska Department of Labor) presentations from the Alternative Financing Methodologies (UI Track) workshop at NASWA's 2017 National UI Directors' Conference and IT...

Featured Speaker: Angela Hanks, U.S. Department of Labor Angela Hanks, Acting Assistant Secretary and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Employment and Training Administration, U.S. Department of Labor   Recovery: Leveraging Lessons Learned from the Pandemic and Moving Forward –...

In This Issue: Please Register for the 79th Annual Conference; October 7-9, 2015 TAA Program Signed into Law – Petitions for New Categories Must be Filed by Midnight - September 27 Appropriations Outlook -- FY 2016; Senate Appropriations Restores Governors Set-Aside to 15% WOTC and Other T...

In an effort to build best practices for all states, including those who have or will recently join SIDES (Alaska, California, Connecticut, Florida, Indiana, and Virginia), the National SIDES Team has collected data pertaining to states’ practices in operating and marketing SIDES Web Servi...

Members-Only COVID-19 Resources NASWA Members (state workforce agency personnel) have additional resources available for internal use only. This requires your NASWA Member login to access. Don’t have a Member Login? Create one now. State Information This page was last updated on [node:chan...

Kentucky’s 2014 annual jobless rate plunges to 6.5 percentFRANKFORT, Ky. (March 9, 2015) — Kentucky’s annual unemployment rate plunged to 6.5 percent in 2014 from 8 percent in 2013, while nonfarm employment gained 29,000 jobs, according to the Office of Employment and Training (OET), an ag...

Kentucky’s jobless rate drops to 5.2 percent in February 2015, continues below national rate for seventh month in a rowFRANKFORT, Ky. (March 19, 2015) — Kentucky’s seasonally adjusted preliminary February 2015 unemployment rate plunged to 5.2 percent, the lowest rate since November 2004, a...

Alaska Economic Trends MagazineMarch 2015 Issue Foreign-Born Alaskans,page 4 The Long-Term Unemployed, page 12 Per Capita Income Tops $50,000, page 16Alaska Economic Trends is a free monthly publication dealing with a wide variety of economic issues in the state. If you would like to subsc...