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On October 29-30, 2013, the NASWA Veterans Affairs Committee met in Providence, Rhode Island, for its first meeting of the 2013-2014 Association year. The meeting opened with an introduction and welcome by NASWA’s Veterans Affairs Committee Chair, Charles Fogarty, Director of the Rhode Isl...

On September 25, 2013, Thomas & Thorngren went live on the State Information Data Exchange System (SIDES) with the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC). The NASWA operated SIDES is a web-based system that enables state Unemployment Insurance (UI) agencies to electronically exchange informa...

For the third consecutive year South Carolina businesses will only pay the minimum 0 .6 percent per employee for federal unemployment taxes (FUTA) because the Palmetto State once again successfully obtained the maximum 5.4 percent credit for 2013 FUTA. “Thanks to the great work from our st...

This policy report explores the phenomenon dubbed "the skills gap," which is the assertion by many businesses and some researchers that businesses are having trouble finding skilled labor. Other explanations are explored, included an employer wage and training gap, and a jobs gap. This is ...

On October 30th through November 1st, NASWA’s Equal Opportunity (EO) Committee hosted Equal Opportunity in the Workforce System 2013, an event held in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL) on Equal Opportunity issues in the workforce and unemployment insurance systems. The ...

Many federally funded programs to assist unemployed workers are co-located and coordinated through state-run American Job Centers (AJCs; formerly One-Stop Career Centers). The specific set of benefits and services available to a worker through the AJC network varies by the worker’s charact...

On October 22-24, 2013, DirectEmployers Association (DirectEmployers) held their Annual Meeting (DEAM13) in San Diego, California, where NASWA members interacted with over 200 HR professionals from Fortune 1000 companies. DirectEmployers is a nonprofit HR consortium of leading global emplo...

This edition of Workforce Bulletin contains articles including: Budget Conferees Seeking Compromise on FY 2014 Spending Levels The Chair of the House Committee on the Budget, Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI) and the Chair of the Senate Committee on the Budget, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), h...

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; and (3) the enactment i...

The Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA; P.L. 105-220) is the primary federal program that supports workforce development activities, including job search assistance, career development, and job training. WIA established the One-Stop delivery system as a way to co-locate and coordinate t...