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Everything is on fire again, and $1.5 billion in grant listings.
Plus, a potential strategy for the Trump Administration to kill workforce programs and how the Administration's grants process creates risks... for the…
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Nick Beadle
Trump finds his jobs policy. It’s kind of like Joe Biden’s, but with more cuts.
Some thoughts on apprenticeship and what programs may go away, change, or change agencies.
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Cannabis makes a lot of money. The law makes it too hard to spend that money on workers.
States have promised big things for jobs in legalizing marijuana and supporting hemp. Here is what is standing in their way and one way to address it.
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Are federal grants still worth your time? Here is how I'm thinking about it right now.
What federal grants are riskiest right now and $2.1 billion in workforce funding.
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Still workin’: The problem with skills-based hiring? Hiring.
Why ending degree requirements hasn’t led to more jobs for people without degrees, and how to start working on it.
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FEMA kills a big red state grant, a key ‘DEIA’ choice, and $2.1 billion in grants listings. Probably.
Plus: A rescissions decision may be the mission and the latest on missing workforce grants.
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Why getting people jobs is harder without equity.
The War on ‘Woke’ is also a war on workforce development that works.
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A DEIA win, Project 2025 author nominated for DOL chief lawyer, and $2.9 billion in grants listings.
Plus: All the jobs are gone, the House and Senate are a measly $329 billion apart, and this week's grants listings.
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The labor market is tapdancing into a bear trap. Is Friday the day it snaps?
The Trump Administration's jobs and funding cuts will hit the hiring market on multiple levels. Will Friday's jobs report change anything? And what…
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Nick Beadle

March 2025

Congress complicates the Trump-DOGE Burn Everything Plan.
Plus: an important Congress-DOGE story you might have missed, the downside of a grant project that is too wide open, and this week's grants listings.
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Nick Beadle
Reports: Trump DOL cuts more than $500 million in international labor projects.
What it means and why the Trump Administration's explanation doesn't make sense.
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The places that make it hard to work.
Poor workforce participation has deep roots in rocky soil. Here is how funders and workforce programs can get better results in states where it is an…
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