WORKFORCE INVESTMENT ACT

Analyses

Adult Education and Economic Growth Act (H.R. 3238), H8418 [21JY]

Bills and resolutions

Business and industry: promote industry growth and competitiveness and improve worker training, retention, and advancement (see S. 777), S4172 [1AP] (see H.R. 1855), H4396 [1AP]

Dept. of Labor: permit establishment of Job Corps centers in territories (see H.R. 3181), H8008 [10JY]

———require certain Federal job training and career education programs give priority to programs that provide a national industry-recognized and portable credential (see H.R. 4072), H13001 [16NO]

Economy: improve assistance for areas affected by long-term economic deterioration and severe economic dislocation relative to the manufacturing industry sector and expand the national emergency grants program (see S. 341), S994 [28JA]

Education: establish financial literacy education programs for newly naturalized U.S. citizens (see H.R. 2117), H4839 [27AP]

———increase access to adult education to provide for economic growth (see S. 1468), S7639 [16JY] (see H.R. 3238), H8302 [16JY]

Employment: include workforce investment programs on the Internet (see H.R. 145), H33 [6JA]

———make non-union training programs eligible for Federal funding under the ``Green Jobs'' program (see S. 1238), S6542 [11JN] (see H.R. 2026), H4685 [22AP]

Health care professionals: establish a demonstration project to train unemployed workers for employment as health care professionals (see S. 1173), S6030 [3JN] (see H.R. 3234), H8302 [16JY]

Lists

Organizations supporting S. 1173, Community-Based Health Care Retraining Act, S6035 [3JN]

Remarks in House

Business and industry: promote industry growth and competitiveness and improve worker training, retention, and advancement (H.R. 1855), H6300 [8JN]

Education: increase access to adult education to provide for economic growth (H.R. 3238), H8417, H8418 [21JY]

Power resources: establish an energy efficiency and renewable energy worker training program, H761 [28JA]

Remarks in Senate

Business and industry: promote industry growth and competitiveness and improve worker training, retention, and advancement (S. 777), S4191-S4195 [1AP], S4285 [2AP], S7773 [21JY]

Education: increase access to adult education to provide for economic growth (S. 1468), S7644 [16JY]

Formula grants: funding, S1796-S1798 [6FE]

Health care professionals: establish a demonstration project to train unemployed workers for employment as health care professionals (S. 1173), S6033 [3JN]

Texts of

S. 777, Strengthening Employment Clusters To Organize Regional Success (SECTORS) Act, S4192-S4195 [1AP]

S. 1173, Community-Based Health Care Retraining Act, S6034 [3JN]

S. 1468, Adult Education and Economic Growth Act, S7645-S7650 [16JY]