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Click the PDF above for the legislative text of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014 Department of Labor section.

Click the PDF above for the meeting minutes from the July 18-19, 2013, meeting of the Administration and Finance Committee in Washington, D.C.

This edition of Workforce Bulletin contains articles including: Congress Likely to Pass Short-Term Spending Measure while Completing Details of Omnibus Appropriations Bill To avoid another government shutdown, the Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations, Harold Rogers (R-KY), has...

At the beginning of every Association year, state administrators from odd and even NASWA regions alternate in nominating agency staff members to the seven standing NASWA Committees. For the 2013-2014 Association year, NASWA Executive Director Rich Hobbie called on state administrators from...

The longest and deepest recession since the Great Depression ended and an expansion began in June 2009. Although output started growing in the third quarter of 2009, the labor market was weak in 2010, with the unemployment rate averaging 9.6% for the year. Despite showing greater improveme...

NASWA UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE COMMITTEE, Meeting Report, January 9-10, 2014, Washington, D.C.

This PDF contains the Minutes from the A&F Committee Meeting held on January 9-10, 2014 in Washington, District of Columbia.

With assistance from NASWA, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has updated a brochure that provides unbiased financial advice for dislocated workers. Through this partnership, FINRA is again printing 300,000 or more copies of this brochure and will ship copies to every sta...

NASWA UI IB Subcommittee Meeting Report, January 7-8, 2014, in Washington, D.C.

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