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On Wednesday, December 4th, NASWA submitted comments to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) concerning the agency’s information collection request (ICR) on the renewal for the U.S. Department of Labor’s (USDOL) Resource Justification Model (RJM) that states submit each year as a repo...

Workforce Development Programs, within the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, was approached by Blackfox, a training provider that specializes in customized electronics technology curricula, with a proposal to serve veteran job seekers. To ensure that job opportunities would be a...

Download the PDF for the minutes to the Veterans Affairs meeting held on October 29-30, 2013 in Providence, Rhode Island.

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This edition of Workforce Bulletin contains articles including: EUC Extension Proposed Through 2014 On Wednesday, November 20th, House Committee on Ways and Means Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) introduced identical legislation, (H.R. 3546 and S. 1747) to extend...

On Friday, November 15, 2013, NASWA signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the National Center on Leadership for the Employment and Advancement of People with Disabilities (LEAD Center). The National Disability Institute (NDI) directs the LEAD Center, which is funded by the U.S. D...

The National Governors Association (NGA) hosted the NGA Veterans’ Licensing and Certification Demonstration Policy Academy this week at the U.S. Department of Labor. Six states – Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nevada, Virginia and Wisconsin - were selected to participate in the Academy to assi...

On Thursday, November 21st, several states, led by the Chair and Vice Chair of NASWA’s Unemployment Insurance Committee, Bruce Madson (OH) and Jay Rowell (IL) respectively met with Congressional staff on the Senate Committee on Finance, which has jurisdiction over the Unemployment Insuranc...

The temporary Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC08) program may provide additional federal unemployment insurance benefits to eligible individuals who have exhausted all available benefits from their state Unemployment Compensation (UC) programs. Currently, EUC08 benefits are availab...