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Unemployment compensation (UC) benefits have been fully subject to the federal income tax since the passage of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 (P.L. 99-514). Under tax law, unemployment compensation is a broad category that includes regular state UC benefits, extended benefits (EB), trade adjus...

Click the PDF above to view the letter from NASWA President Mark Henry to BLS Groshen.

This report provides background on the TAA program. It begins with descriptions of eligibility and benefits under both the current and previous provisions. The report then presents information on application activity, benefit usage, and participants' outcomes.

Please click the PDF above to view a letter from NASWA President Mark Henry to Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Commissioner Erica Groshen requesting BLS publish three-month averages of state employment and unemployment statisitics.

Please click the PDF above to view a letter from NASWA President Mark Henry sent to state administrators on March 5, 2014 requesting their assistance in providing information to NASWA state equal opportunity compliance reviews conducted by the U.S. Department of Labor Civil Rights Center.

On Wednesday, March 5, NASWA President Mark Henry (MS) sent a letter to Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Commissioner Erica Groshen requesting BLS calculate and publish monthly state, regional and area employment and unemployment statistics as three-month moving averages in addition to the...

This report provides an overview of issues that have been raised by stakeholders about youth programs authorized under WIA. First, some policy makers have proposed consolidating these and other workforce programs to make them more efficient and less costly. Other stakeholders assert that a...

Joe Grogan, Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy Beth Townsend*, Executive Director, Iowa Department of Workforce Development;NASWA Veterans Affairs Committee Chair Scott Sanders, NASWA Executive Director

According to the SC Department of Employment and Workforce (DEW), newly-released figures show that 2013 was a banner year as far as total employment. More South Carolinians were employed by the end of the year than ever before in the state’s history. South Carolina’s employment level excee...