Archive - JOBS THAT WORK

$7.4 billion in workforce grants listings.

Including another sneaky HUD grant return.

Jan 2 • Nick Beadle

December 2025

$7.3 billion in workforce grants listings.

Including the return of YouthBuild and two reopened opportunities at HUD.

Dec 26, 2025 • Nick Beadle

Arkansas‘s $36 million nationwide apprenticeship fund becomes official.

What we learned from DOL's pre-holiday announcement.

Dec 22, 2025 • Nick Beadle

The apprenticeship struggle continues, getting skills marketplaces over the hump, and $7.1 billion in grants listings.

Plus, Workforce Pell's problem-ordering problem and AI in apprenticeship.

Dec 18, 2025 • Nick Beadle

Un-breaking hiring, with Opportunity@Work's Papia Debroy.

What hiring inequalities does this generation face that others do not?

Dec 16, 2025 • Nick Beadle

Arkansas, Workforce Pell funding apprenticeship, and $7.2 billion in grants listings.

Plus, an uninspiring congressional week on workforce, and is Alabama history's greatest state for American workforce development?

Dec 11, 2025 • Nick Beadle

Three encouraging workforce things I learned in 2025.

Things to build on in 2026. Hopefully.

Dec 9, 2025 • Nick Beadle

DOL offering you less WIOA in your WIOA, getting Congress to care about workforce, and $8.5 billion in grant listings.

Plus, Workforce Pell's rulemaking starts and Congress' busy workforce calendar.

Dec 5, 2025 • Nick Beadle

The Magic Beans Problem.

How do you build workforce programs for employers who want to have fewer jobs?

Dec 2, 2025 • Nick Beadle

November 2025

Why is Congress so set on a bad workforce bill that's politically dicey?

Plus, more on the Ed-DOL marriage, and $6 billion in grant opportunities.

Nov 25, 2025 • Nick Beadle

19 previously unannounced federal grant awards, Congress' bad Ed-DOL takes, and $6 billion in grants listings.

Plus, what's up with apprenticeship cash, where exactly are Ed staff moving, and a $222 million grant with a 13-day application period.

Nov 21, 2025 • Nick Beadle

What throwing Education into the Department of Labor actually means.

Here's what's actually happening, and how it affects workforce, how it affects education, and how it affects common sense.

Nov 19, 2025 • Nick Beadle

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