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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.

NOMINATION FORM Award Name: State Excellence Award Description: The State Excellence Award honors a state for a workforce related program, project, or initiative, which addresses an issue or challenge, and results in significant improvement of service or performance. Criteria: 1. The pr...

NOMINATION FORM Award Name: National Business of the Year Award Description: The National Business of the Year award recognizes a small, medium, or large business that demonstrates outstanding accomplishments resulting in a positive impact on its workforce, industry and community. Additi...

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...

Dozens of temporary tax provisions are scheduled to expire at the end of 2013 under current law. Most of the provisions set to expire in 2013 have been part of past temporary tax extension legislation. Most recently, many temporary tax provisions were extended as part of the American Taxpa...

Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) grants are competitive grants to institutions of higher education to support the development, offering, and improvement of career training programs that can be completed in two years or less. The program targets an...

NASWA UI Committee January 9-10, 2014, pre-meeting materials for the meeting in Washington, DC.

Several key provisions related to extended federal unemployment benefits are temporary and, therefore, scheduled to expire: Authorization for the temporary Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC08) program is scheduled to expire the week ending on or before January 1, 2014 (i.e., Decembe...