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Will the Trump Administration spend the money Congress just gave it?
Plus, a bellwether on Trump workforce policy, that whole union-friendly Trump Administration hasn't arrived yet, and this week's grants listings.
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Nick Beadle
Senate Republicans wanted to stop child labor. DOGE just cut cash that does that.
DOGE apparently claimed its first DOL grants. Here's what they did and why that's bad for fighting child labor and positioning American goods in a trade…
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Nick Beadle
The end of good jobs. For now.
Trump, Republicans, and even Democrats have tilted away from workforce programs that lead to good jobs. They shouldn't.
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Nick Beadle
So... it looks like we're cutting workforce money at a bad time.
Congress does Congress things, DOL gets official leaders in a weird week, and this week's workforce grants listings.
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Nick Beadle
We're talking about apprenticeship from the wrong angle.
America's main quality control method for apprenticeship is seen as a barrier to scaling it, but that's not what it was built to do.
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Nick Beadle
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The Trump Administration takes a stand... against ‘family-sustaining jobs.’
Plus, a grant-by-grant rundown on the changes made by the Trump Administration for DOL applicants.
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Nick Beadle
The Trump Administration quietly ends quality in pre-apprenticeship programs.
The Administration has deleted important guidance for a key entry point to one of its workforce priorities.
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Grants update: Terms of engagement.
Key things to know about your terms and conditions as part of the latest attempt to freeze funding, plus this week's listings.
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Nick Beadle
How to make sure that workforce programs lead to better wages.
America's main pot of workforce dollars often doesn't lead to jobs that actually pay people a living wage. Here is a way for doing things better.
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Nick Beadle

February 2025

Grants update: Dollars left adrift?
Money going nowhere, federal firings and resignations, and grants listings and updates for the week.
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Nick Beadle
Lawmakers love the ‘social alchemy’ of workforce programs. Why don't they like the people the programs actually help?
Where happy political narratives supporting workforce development cause bad policy.
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Nick Beadle
Grants update: We live in a world with many knives.
New grants listings and some thoughts on the other looming threat to programs.
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