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Salute to the Leadership 2014 Award Recipients: President's Award – Richard A. Hobbie, Ph.D., Executive Director, NASWA SEAL Award – The State of Florida with Special Recognition to the Honorable Rick Scott, Governor and the CareerSource Florida Network Eagle Award – Roger Bailie, Director...

Gov. Scott: Florida creates 2,100 private-sector jobs in JulyTALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Governor Rick Scott today announced that Florida created 2,100 private-sector jobs in July 2014. Since December 2010, Florida’s private-sector businesses have added 620,300 jobs for Florida families. The state...

Florida’s July Employment Figures ReleasedCONTACT: DEO Communications (850) 617-5600TALLAHASSEE – Florida’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 6.2 percent in July 2014, unchanged from the June 2014 rate of 6.2 percent, and down 1.1 percentage points from 7.3 percent a year ago. Ther...

In This Issue: Senate Passes Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act Senators Reed and Heller Reintroduce EUC Reauthorization Registration for the 78th NASWA Annual Conference Now Available! USDOL Awards $155 million in WIA Dislocated Worker National Reserve Funds to Implement Job Trainin...

In the United States, partnerships are a key governance tool to better connect state and local workforce development policies to the needs of the economy. The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) was designed improve coordination between and among agencies so that workers and jo...

Apprenticeships are often viewed as an effective training program to better link young people to good jobs. Given that young people are most vulnerable to changes in the future of work, it is important to consider how apprenticeships can be used to promote local economic development opport...

This edition of Workforce Bulletin contains articles including:Extension of Emergency Unemployment Compensation Passes U.S. SenateOn Monday, April 7, the Senate passed the Emergency Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2014 (H.R. 3979), a five month retroactive extension of the Emerg...

This letter from Robert N. Sechen, General Counsel, Florida Department of Economic Opportunity to Naomi Barry-Perez, Director, Civil Rights Center on April 10, 2014 is a requests for DEO to agree to a “final” draft agreement by April 10, 2014.

This breakout will delve into how state workforce agencies are implementing crisis communications during disaster recovery efforts, including highlights of what worked well and learning lessons on what did not. This session is the kick-off to a series of NASWA webinars that will be held fo...

In many states, Labor Market Information (LMI) shops are evolving into broader data shops that provide several tiers of service to multiple workforce units and state agencies. At this workshop a prominent state administrator and three LMI directors who are leaders in national LMI initiativ...