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On Monday, November 18th, NASWA sent a letter to the Chairman and Ranking Member, along with three other members of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) requesting the Senate WIA reauthorization bill, the Workforce Investment Act of 2013 (S. 1356), include a...

This edition of Workforce Bulletin contains articles including: Budget Conference Committee Holds Second Meeting, Differences Remain on Spending Levels The budget conference committee, formed to resolve differences between House and Senate overall spending levels for fiscal 2014, held its ...

Of the 9,215 veterans who entered the Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) Independent Living (IL) track within the Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (VR&E) program from fiscal years 2008 to 2011, most were male Vietnam era veterans in their 50s or 60s. The most prevalent disabi...

This edition of Workforce Bulletin contains articles including: Labor-HHS-ED Funding Level at Fiscal 2013 as Congress Seeks to Reach Agreement on FY2014 Appropriations This week, members of the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services ...

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...

The U.S. Department of Treasury recently released its ninth newsletter on the Treasury Offset Program’s (TOP) Unemployment Insurance Program initiative. The initiative collects UI debt from federal income tax refunds due to fraud or a person’s failure to report wages while collecting unemp...

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 ...