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What throwing Education into the Department of Labor actually means.
LockSimple

Nov 19, 2025

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10 min read

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.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
Workforce Pell is a shotgun marriage of messy legal requirements. It's going to need a lot of help to succeed.

Nov 18, 2025

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12 min read

Workforce Pell is a shotgun marriage of messy legal requirements. It's going to need a lot of help to succeed.

What we can start to do to make it work.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
Money for Workforce Pell's big problem, rebooting grants after the shutdown, and $5.8 billion in grants listings.
LockSimple

Nov 14, 2025

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23 min read

Money for Workforce Pell's big problem, rebooting grants after the shutdown, and $5.8 billion in grants listings.

Plus, the programs that may take a while to hit the street, the policy clues in an Ed funding opportunity, and a state playbook for good jobs.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
Unpacking apprenticeship degrees and building for Workforce Pell, with Joe Ross of Reach University.

Nov 12, 2025

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14 min read

Unpacking apprenticeship degrees and building for Workforce Pell, with Joe Ross of Reach University.

An interview about keeping apprenticeship affordable, preparing for Workforce Pell's uncertainty, and avoiding reinventing the wheel on apprenticeship regulation.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
Possible Senate shifts on apprenticeship, what small business wants, and $2 billion in grants listings.
LockSimple

Nov 7, 2025

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22 min read

Possible Senate shifts on apprenticeship, what small business wants, and $2 billion in grants listings.

Plus, the hard math of training incentives, and should organizations change their names to pursue federal grant dollars? Oh, and the shutdown too.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
Job training has a golden population the money can’t reach.

Nov 4, 2025

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10 min read

Job training has a golden population the money can’t reach.

The unsweet spot of workers with too few and too many needs at the same time.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
A SNAP stop twist, shutdown endgame questions, and $52 billion in grants listings.
LockSimple

Oct 31, 2025

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26 min read

A SNAP stop twist, shutdown endgame questions, and $52 billion in grants listings.

Plus, immigration, AI layoffs, and a question about the Trump Administration’s goalposts on appenticeship.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
'Preventative care' workforce development is a good idea. Magical thinking is not.

Oct 28, 2025

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10 min read

'Preventative care' workforce development is a good idea. Magical thinking is not.

Don’t try to use one problem to solve another.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
Outsourcing apprenticeship policy to states, UBI, and $52 billion in grants listings.
LockSimple

Oct 24, 2025

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21 min read

Outsourcing apprenticeship policy to states, UBI, and $52 billion in grants listings.

Plus, building workforce development in manufacturing and answering your questions about federal layoff impacts on grants.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
Here is what that mysterious $36 million Arkansas apprenticeship award is for.
LockSimple

Oct 23, 2025

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9 min read

Here is what that mysterious $36 million Arkansas apprenticeship award is for.

It raises more questions, but we now have a trend.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
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