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On Wednesday, February 26, NASWA Executive Director Rich Hobbie and Deputy Executive Director Bob Simoneau participated in a forum on workforce development, along with representatives from 20 other workforce development organizations to discuss with Secretary of Labor Tom Perez and Employm...

Over the last 20 years, the National Association of State Workforce Agencies (NASWA) has surveyed state workforce agencies to determine the amount of state funds used to supplement federal grants to operate a variety of federal workforce and unemployment insurance programs. The NASWA State

The 113th Congress may face a number of issues related to unemployment insurance programs: Unemployment Compensation (UC), the temporary, now-expired Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC08), and Extended Benefits (EB). With the national unemployment rate decreasing but still high, the ...

This report discusses veterans' employment trends and programs. The first section presents data on veterans' employment outcomes, identifying recent trends, and discussing issues to consider when interpreting veterans' employment data. The following sections present brief discussions of ex...

This letter from Arizona's James Apperson, Assistant Director, Employment and Rehabilitation Services, to the CRC on February 19, 2014 is a response to a previous letter from the CRC about the compliance review.

The adequacy of the U.S. science and engineering workforce has been an ongoing concern of Congress for more than 60 years. Scientists and engineers are widely believed to be essential to U.S. technological leadership, innovation, manufacturing, and services, and thus vital to U.S. economic...

This edition of Workforce Bulletin contains articles including: Congress Passes Debt Limit Extension On Wednesday, February 11, the Senate passed the Temporary Debt Limit Extension Act (S. 540), suspending the debt limit until March 15, 2015, without additional policy provisions. S.540 pas...

Several NASWA Committees held their first or second committee meetings of the 2014 Association Year in December and January, continuing the ongoing work from the previous year, while also discussing strategies to further their mission and goals in the coming year. The seven standing NASWA ...

This edition of Workforce Bulletin contains articles including: Emergency Unemployment Compensation Extension Stalls in the U.S. Senate Legislation to extend the federal Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) program failed to gain the 60 votes necessary for the measure to move forward ...

This report analyzes several types of recent changes to state Unemployment Compensation (UC) programs. Three categories of UC state law issues are considered: (1) changes in the duration of state UC unemployment benefits; (2) changes in the UC weekly benefit amount related to the now-expir...