Job Training and Education

Job training and education are the keys for low-wage individuals to obtain a quailty job. WOW is committed to promoting and supporting job training and education policies that provide a pathway to economic security.

Both a strong economy and economically secure workers depend on a healthy workforce development system. WOW supports sector approaches to workforce development through which public and private partners create workforce and economic development strategies that can advance growth industries that build on regional assets. Such high-growth sectors are capable of paying workers at levels that can support middle class families.  Additionally, WOW supports increased funding for existing programs such as the Workforce Investment Act, the Carl T. Perkins Career, Technical Education Act, Pell grants, the Women’s Bureau, and the Women in Apprenticeship and Nontraditional Occupations (WANTO) program. 

Sign on Letter: Stand Up for Women's Programs in the Department of Labor (March 2012)

Sign-on Letter Urging Congress to Protect Women's Economic Security through Unemployment Compensation, Job Training, Pell Grants and School Modernization (December 2011)

Fact Sheet: Women Need Investments in Job Training and Op-Ed Template on Job Training Programs (August 2011)

In re-writing the Workforce Investment Act, the HELP Committee should strengthen provisions for economic security, older workers and those seeking non traditional jobs (June 2011)

Senate HELP Committee discussion drafts of WIA reauthorization - Title I and Title II (June 2011)

H.R. 2315 Women and Workforce Investment for Nontraditional (Women WIN) Jobs Act (June 2011)

Attacks on employment and training programs are arbtitary and misdirected (May 2011)

Workforce development organizations warn cuts to job training programs will slow job growth and economic recovery (Press Release - May 2011)

Organizations urge targeted training and quality employment for low-income workers with the green construction careers demostration project in the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (October 2009)

• Green Construction Careers Demonstration Program provision (bill language) in ACES (American Clean Energy and Security Act - June 2009)

Building Lifelong Economic Security through the Career and Technical Education System: A Guide to Implementing the 2006 Carl Perkins Career and Technical Education Act – Perkins IV (October 2008)