This brief describes some of the critical updates the House bill makes to WIOA. It also offers CLASP's recommendations for Congress to build toward a workforce system that empowers workers and helps create broadly shared prosperity.

This brief outlines key changes to current law in the House WIOA bill for youth workforce programs that was passed on May 17, 2022.

The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) is the federal legislation governing the public workforce system—and it is up for reauthorization for the first time since 2014. As Congress considers reauthorization, CLASP recommends focusing on five priorities to help people secure better jobs.

CLASP has encouraged states to use a number of WIOA's policy levers to best serve low-income people. 

Anna Cielinski was quoted about her recent fact sheet on state WIOA plans.

This is a reference guide on the WIOA adult program’s priority of service, providing recommendations as well as text and citations from the statute, final rules, guidance, planning requirements, and data collection in one place for easy reference.

The explicit inclusion of transitional jobs in WIOA will allow more local areas to add this model to their portfolio of services.

Through WIOA, states and local areas can leverage workforce training funds to improve the quality of front-line jobs.

These strategic planning entities are critical to directly link youth stakeholders and experts to decision making about funding and resource allocation, service implementation, performance measures, and reporting.

States should determine whether partners have built career pathway programs that meet the definition in WIOA and offer infrastructure and guidance on defining and tracking participants who are on a "state-recognized" career pathway.