• Support increased funding for federal workforce development and job training programs. Discuss WIOA Reauthorization policy ideas. Highlight benefits of integration with federal job training programs including WIOA, TANF, TAA, RESEA.
• Monitor implementation and coordination of Perkins-Career and Technical Education programming.
• Support increased funding for federal workforce development and job training programs. Discuss WIOA Reauthorization policy ideas in the Stronger Workforce for America Act. Highlight benefits of integration with federal job training programs including WIOA, TANF, TAA, RESEA. Monitor workforce development provision implementation of Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and CHIPS and Science Act.
• Support greater alignment between TAA programs and WIOA services. Expand eligibility for TAA customers. Streamline approval process through Department of Labor.

Duration: April 1, 2021 to present

General Issues: Budget/Appropriations, Education, Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace, Trade (Domestic & Foreign)

Spending: about $120,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

It can be tricky to figure out how much an organization spent on a particular lobbying engagement. The law only requires lobbyists to report the amount they were paid for federal lobbying each quarter rounded to the nearest $10,000—and if it's less than $3,000 in a given quarter (or less than $13,000 for organizations with in-house lobbyists), they don't have to disclose it at all. Plus, some organizations include spending that doesn’t belong in the report—for instance, money spent lobbying state governments or other legal work.

Agencies lobbied since 2021: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Labor - Dept of (DOL), Executive Office of the President (EOP), Commerce - Dept of (DOC), Transportation - Dept of (DOT)