Authorized by Title II, Part A, of the Job Training Partnership Act, Adult
Training Grants is a formula-funded, State-operated program which provides
training, and related education and employment services to economically
disadvantaged adults.
Authorized by Title I
of the Workforce Investment
Act, Adult Employment and Training
Activities replaces the Adult Training Grants program authorized under JTPA and provides
formula-based funding to States and territories to design and
operate training programs for adults, including low-income individuals and
public assistance recipients.
Dislocated Worker Assistance is a State-operated program authorized under
Title III of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) which provides training,
job search assistance and supportive services designed to help permanently
separated workers return to productive, unsubsidized employment.
Dislocated Worker
Activities, authorized under Title I of the Workforce Investment Act,
is a State-operated program which replaces the Dislocated Worker Assistance
program authorized under JTPA and provides reemployment services and retraining
assistance to individuals permanently dislocated from their employment. In addition, States
use these funds for rapid response assistance to help workers affected by mass layoffs
and plant closures. Eighty percent of funding is distributed by formula to the States.
The remaining twenty percent is available to the Secretary for activities specified in
WIA, primarily to respond to mass layoffs, plant and/or military base closings, and natural
disasters across the country, which cannot be otherwise anticipated, as well as technical
assistance and training demonstration projects. The Trade Adjustment Assistance Reform Act of 2002
(P.L. 107-210, 8/6/2002) added new provisions to the Workforce Investment Act which authorize the use
of national emergency grant funds to pay for the cost of certain healthcare insurance coverage for
individuals eligible for the TAA and NAFTA-TAA programs.
This budget item represents funding for competitive grants to local workforce boards and
national skill alliances to identify skill shortages and target resources on industries
struggling to fill jobs, identify workers needing training, and privide training and job
placement services.
Authorized by Title II, Part C, of the Job Training Partnership Act, this
budget item is a formula-funded, State-operated program which provides training
and related education and employment services to economically disadvantaged
youth, both in school and out of school.
Summer
Youth Employment & Training
Authorized by Title II, Part B, of the Job Training Partnership Act, the
Summer Youth Employment and Training (SYETP) program is a formula-funded,
State-operated program which provides temporary summer employment and academic
enrichment to disadvantaged youth.
Authorized by Title I
of the Workforce Investment
Act,
Youth Activities replaces the former
JTPA Youth Training Grants and Summer Youth Employment and Training Programs with a single
funding stream to support a wide range of activities and services to
prepare low-income youth for academic and employment success, including
summer jobs. The new youth program is a formula-funded, State-operated program which
links academic and occupational learning with youth development activities.
Authorized by Title I
of the Workforce Investment
Act,
Youth Opportunity Grants provide funds
to increase the long-term employment of youth who live in empowerment zones, enterprise
communities, and similar high poverty areas.
This budget item funds competitive grants to high poverty areas to provide low
income youth with extended summer employment opportunities and end-of-
summer bonuses for high academic achievement and job performance.
Authorized by Section
127 of the Workforce Investment
Act,
these funds are for
youth employment and training activities related to migrant and seasonal farmworker
programs.
Authorized by Title I
of the Workforce Investment
Act (and previously by Title IV, Part B, of the Job Training Partnership Act), Job
Corps is the nation's largest residential education and training program
for disadvantaged youth.
Authorized by Title I
of the Workforce Investment
Act (and previously by
Title IV, Part A, of the Job Training Partnership Act), this
program is designed to improve the economic well-being of Native Americans
(Indians, Eskimos, Aleuts, and Native Hawaiians) through the provision of
training, work experience, and other employment-related services and
opportunities that are intended to aid the participants to secure permanent,
unsubsidized jobs.
Authorized by Title I
of the Workforce Investment
Act (and previously by Title IV,
Part A, of the Job Training Partnership Act), this
program is designed to serve members of economically disadvantaged families
whose principal livelihood is gained in migratory and other forms of seasonal
farmwork.
Title I of the Workforce Investment Act (and previously Section 441
of the Job Training and Partnership Act) requires the Secretary
to conduct, directly or through grants or contractual agreements, special
programs designed to meet unique employment and training needs of disabled,
Vietnam-era and recently separated veterans.
Authorized by Title IV, Part D, of the Job Training Partnership Act,
funding in this budget item is distributed to the States through reimbursable
agreements to improve the quality of and/or increase use of access to labor
market information through media releases, publications, seminars, packaged
public or commercial software, or on-line delivery systems.
This funding is authorized by Title IV of the Job Training Partnership Act
and funds evaluation of ETA programs and demonstration
initiatives, development and refinement of performance standards and standardized
program information, research on worker assessment and testing, and other
research that promotes understanding of ETA policy and program improvement.
This funding is authorized by Title IV of the Job Training Partnership Act for the
purpose of developing and improving techniques and demonstrating the effectiveness
of specialized methods in addressing employment and training needs.
This item funding is
authorized by Section 170 of the Workforce Investment Act for the purpose of
providing, coordinating, and supporting the development of
appropriate technical assistance, staff development, and other activities,
including assistance in replicating programs of demonstrated effectiveness.
This item is
authorized by Section 503 of the Workforce Investment Act and contains funding for awards of incentive grants to States that exceed
State adjusted levels of performance for WIA Title I State programs, WIA Adult Education
and Literacy programs, and Carl T. Perkins Title I programs.
This funding is
authorized by Section 171 of the Workforce Investment Act for the purpose of awarding grants or contracts to conduct research,
pilots or demonstrations that improve techniques or demonstrate the effectiveness of
programs.
Authorized by the American Competitiveness and Workforce Improvement Act of 1998, as
amended in 2000, this item is funded from H-1B fees, not from appropriations.
The fees are collected from employers applying for foreign workers under the H-1B
temporary alien labor certification program. These fees fund a demonstration program
of grants to regional and local entities to provide technical skills for unemployed
and incumbent workers.
Authorized by the Workforce Investment Act,
this item contains funding for a large-scale joint pilot and demonstration initiative
with the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services. It would link the
resources of the workforce investment system to the criminal justice system serving
individuals under 35 years of age and test new approaches for reintegrating these
ex-offenders into the mainstream economy.
Authorized by Section
172 of the Workforce Investment
Act,
this item contains funding
for the Secretary of Labor to provide for the continuing evaluation of programs conducted
under WIA, as well as of federally-funded employment-related activities under other
provisions of law.
This is a program of competitive grants and is a comprehensive, community-based initiative
that transforms high schools to help students make the transition from school to work.
This committee was established under section 422 of the Carl D. Perkins
Vocational Education Act to review the need for and application of all operating
national data collection and processing systems related to labor market
information, implement and maintain national standardized definitions with
respect to labor market information, and provide technical assistance to
States relating to labor market/occupational supply and demand information.
The School-to-Work Opportunities Act established this initiative to provide
American youth with the knowledge and skills they need to make an effective
transition from school to a first job in a high-skill, high-wage career.
The NSSB, established by the National Skill Standards Act of 1994, serves
as a catalyst in stimulating the development and adoption of a voluntary
national system of skill standards and of assessment and certification of
attainment of skill standards that will serve as a cornerstone of the national
strategy to enhance workforce skills, result in increased productivity, and
that can be used by the Nation and by industries.
This Commission was established by the Glass Ceiling Act of 1991 (Title I
of the Civil Rights Act of 1991) to examine issues raised by the Glass Ceiling
Initiative (undertaken by the Department of Labor) to focus greater attention
on the importance of eliminating artifical barriers to the advancement of
women and minorities to management and decisionmaking positions in business,
and promote work force diversity.
This activity was mandated by the Women in Apprenticeship and Nontraditional
Occupations Act to provide technical assistance to employers and labor unions
to encourage employment of women in apprenticeable occupations and nontraditional
occupations.
Funds in this budget item used by the Game's organizer for the following
activities prior to, during, and following the Games: (1) training and employment
costs of volunteers working in the Games; (2) training and staff costs for
the days of the Games; and, (3) training and travel for officials of the
Games.
These funds for the Homeless Veterans Reintegration Project, to be administered
through the Assistant Secretary for Veterans' Employment and Training, are
designed to serve homeless veterans and place them in employment positions.
This office is
totally funded from Program
Operations and represents ETA federal staff who provide national/federal
guidance and oversight to the National Apprenticeship System by promoting
registered apprenticeship; providing technical assistance services to business
and industry, labor organizations, and State agencies in developing and
implementing high quality training and education programs.
In August 1996, the Personal Responsibility
and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act reformed the nation's welfare
laws. A new system of block grants to the States for Temporary
Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) was created, changing the nature
and provision of welfare benefits in America.
The new Balanced Budget Act of 1997, signed by the President on August
5, 1997, authorizes the U.S. Department of Labor to provide
Welfare-to-Work Grants to States and local
communities for fiscal years 1998 and 1999. These grants will be used to provide many
welfare recipients with the job placement services, transitional employment, and other
support services they need to make the successful progression into long-term unsubsidized
employment.
The Community Service Employment for Older Americans appropriation finances
Federal project grants to public and private nonprofit national-level
organizations and to units of State government.
This budget item provides for funding the administration of State unemployment
compensation programs which have been enacted pursuant to the Federal
Unemployment Tax Act (Chapter 23, Internal Revenue Code) and Title III of
the Social Security Act.
Authorized by the Wagner-Peyser Act of 1933, the public employment service
is a nationwide system operated by the States which receive formula-funded allotments,
with a network of over 1,800 local offices which provides no-fee employment services to
individuals seeking employment and to employers seeking workers.
These funds finance the reemployment needs of unemployed workers who
lose their jobs through no fault of their own and who need extra job
finding help.
This budget item funds competitive grants to States to improve access to
employment and training services by creating a national system of one-stop
career centers.
These funds will provide competitive grants to improve access to and coordination
of information, benefits, and services to enable individuals with disabilities to return
to work.
These funds are provided for State certification of employer applications for admission
of certain classes of pernament employment-based immigrant and nonimmigrant foreign workers.
Funds are provided for delivery of technical assistance developed under the
cooperative agreements initiated in support of the Employment Service
Revitalization in 1994 and for responding to priorities in support of the
integration of the Employment Service into the One-Stop Career Center system
and transition to a new workforce development system.
This budget item funds payments to certain specified States to fund the annual
amortization costs of independent retirement plans of State employment service
agencies.
Originally authorized by the Small Business Job Protection Act of 1996 and reauthorized
by the Tax and Trade Relief Extension Act of 1998, through June 30, 1999,
these funds are provided for State administration of the program, including certification
of employer eligibility for federal tax credit for hiring of individuals from targeted
groups.
This budget item funds America's Agricultural Labor Network (AgNet), a new information
system devoted to the agriculture industry that allows growers to find workers and workers
to find employment opportunities that meet their needs.
This activity funds
Federal staff for leadership, policy direction and administration of all
ETA programs, including support activities and the Bureau of
Apprenticeship and Training .
This activity provides for weekly adjustment benefit payments to workers
partially or totally separated from firms which make products or provide
certain services affected by imports.
This activity provides funds for training, job search allowances, and job
relocation allowances to workers certified by the Department as adversely
affected by trade imports.
This activity provides for weekly adjustment benefit payments to workers
partially or totally separated from firms which make products or provide
services affected by imports from Mexico or Canada or which moved operations
to Mexico or Canada.
This activity provides funds for training, job search allowances, and job
relocation allowances to workers certified by the Department as adversely
affected by imports from Mexico and Canada or whose employers moved operations
to Mexico or Canada.
This appropriation
provides general fund advances to several trust and general fund
accounts for the purposes authorized under various Federal and State
unemployment compensation laws whenever the balances in such accounts
prove insufficient or whenever reimbursement of an account for expended
funds is provided for by law.
