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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...

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...

Annual Revisions Show Improvements in Nevada’s Economy Carson City, NV —Annual adjustments to Nevada’s labor market data show that job growth was slightly stronger than initially estimated in 2014. Specifically, job estimates increased by 600 from preliminary readings. As a result, 2013-20...

Minimum Wage Increase Takes Effect Today 16,000 Alaskans will receive pay raise JUNEAU: Today Alaska’s minimum wage will increase from $7.75 to $8.75 per hour, a 13% increase. Approximately 16,000 Alaska jobs currently pay less than $8.75 per hour, meaning thousands of workers will see the...

Nevada Data Insights Award Nomination: DETR Research & Analysis Bureau Demographic Reporting Enhancements Contact Information of Individual Submitting Nomination Nominator: Rosa Mendez, DETR PIO Email Address: rcmendez@detr.nv.gov Agency Name: Nevada Department of Employment, Train...

Alabama Data Insights Award Nomination: Alaska Economic Trends Magazine Contact Information of Individual Submitting Nomination Nominator: Hannah Lager Email Address: hannah.lager@alaska.gov Agency Name: Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development   Alaska Economic Tren...

In This Issue: House, Senate Working to Complete FY 2015 Spending Plan to Avert Government Shutdown Elections: Governors, U.S. House and Senate Administration and Finance and Employment and Training Committees Hold Joint Meeting on WIOA Implementation with Key System Partners NASWA hosts E...