Project Background
- Advisory Board to the Reality Check Initiative
- Workforce Investment Boards
Advisory Board to the Reality Check Initiative
- Teri Bergman, AFL-CIO's Working for America
- Sylvia Beville, Metro South/West Regional Employment Board
- Amy Kays Blair, Aspen Institute
- Patrick Cassidy, National Association of Workforce Boards
- Carol Clymer, Public Private Ventures
- Sarah Brady, Good Jobs First
- Abbey Frank, Center for Law and Social Policy
- Chrisanne Gayl, The Workforce Alliance
- David Hunn, Northern Virginia Workforce Investment Board
- Jeannine LaPrad, Corporation for a Skilled Workforce
- Keith Mitchell, D.C. Workforce Investment Council
- Eric Parker, Wisconsin Regional Training Partnership
- Nisha Patel, Center for Law and Social Policy
- Geri Scott, Jobs for the Future
- Margaret Singleton, DC Chamber of Commerce
- Whitney Smith, Chicago Jobs Council
- Tse Ming Tam, National Economic Development & Law Center
- Sam Tuttelman, Goodwill Industries International
WIA Reauthorization
Effective July 2000, WIA replaced JTPA with a goal of strengthening the nation’s workforce development system by streamlining and coordinating the delivery of multiple employment, education and training programs. WIA has been in a steady pattern awaiting reauthorization since 2003. Both the House and Senate have passed versions of reauthorized bills.
The Senate and House bills have retained the original purpose of WIA: to increase participants’ employment, retention, earnings and occupational skill attainment and to improve the quality of the workforce. Both versions also add a provision to promote informed choices by jobseekers. The Senate bill also expands the concept of self-sufficiency in provisions relating to goals, client counseling, sector projects, and reporting. In addition, the bill offers a definition of self-sufficiency consistent with the Standards discussed in Reality Check.