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In June 2013, NASWA’s Employment and Training (E&T) Committee conducted a national survey on the use of Wagner-Peyser Act (W-P) funds, and the findings are presented in this report. The survey was designed to help answer two questions: 1) How do states spend W-P funds? 2) What value do...

Dozens of temporary tax provisions are scheduled to expire at the end of 2013 under current law. Most of the provisions set to expire in 2013 have been part of past temporary tax extension legislation. Most recently, many temporary tax provisions were extended as part of the American Taxpa...

Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) grants are competitive grants to institutions of higher education to support the development, offering, and improvement of career training programs that can be completed in two years or less. The program targets an...

NASWA UI Committee January 9-10, 2014, pre-meeting materials for the meeting in Washington, DC.

Several key provisions related to extended federal unemployment benefits are temporary and, therefore, scheduled to expire: Authorization for the temporary Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC08) program is scheduled to expire the week ending on or before January 1, 2014 (i.e., Decembe...

On Friday, December 6th South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard appointed Marcia Hultman to serve as Secretary of the South Dakota Department of Labor and Regulation. Hultman has served as the interim secretary since former South Dakota Department of Labor and Regulation Secretary Pam Robert...

Through an agreement recently signed with The Liaison Capitol Hill, NASWA is pleased to announce it is able to make hotel rooms at the prevailing government per diem room rate available to state workforce agency administrators and their staff planning on visiting the Washington, D.C. Capit...

On Friday, December 13th Missouri Governor Jay Nixon appointed Missouri State Senator Ryan McKenna as the new Director of the Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations. McKenna started his new position this week on Wednesday, December 18th. Mr. McKenna, a Jefferson City, MO nat...

District of Columbia Department of Employment Services (DOES) Director Lisa Mallory announced last week that she will be leaving her post in early January. She will become the new chief executive of the D.C. Building Industry Association, a real-estate development trade group in Washington...

This edition of Workforce Bulletin contains articles including: House and Senate Pass Two-Year Budget Agreement, Sequestration Relief Provided House and Senate budget negotiators reached a two-year budget agreement on Tuesday, December 10, 2013, to set overall discretionary spending levels...