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Welcome to workforce purgatory, 'missing' $200 million, and $1.6 billion in grants listings.
LockSimple

Jul 25, 2025

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22 min read

Welcome to workforce purgatory, 'missing' $200 million, and $1.6 billion in grants listings.

Plus, another pot of DOGE-disliked grants are back, an interesting take on what's in that DOL-Ed partnership, and the new workforce side of AI.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
Registered Apprenticeship needs to be better. Let's start here.

Jul 22, 2025

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11 min read

Registered Apprenticeship needs to be better. Let's start here.

Changing the conversation on how to remake America's most talked-about (and complained-about) workforce program.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
DOL and Ed make it official, Congress stalls on IDing workforce funding cuts, and $1.6 billion in grants listings.
LockSimple

Jul 18, 2025

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24 min read

DOL and Ed make it official, Congress stalls on IDing workforce funding cuts, and $1.6 billion in grants listings.

Plus, the Trump Administration's interesting signals on manufacturing, the Summer Grants Blitz arrives, and what's up with the missing workforce money.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
Women are the canaries for what's missing in apprenticeship.

Jul 15, 2025

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14 min read

Women are the canaries for what's missing in apprenticeship.

In trying to roll back equity and nondiscrimination apprenticeship, DOL highlights the need for equity and nondiscrimination in apprenticeship. But what would really fix the problems?

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
Discriminating in apprenticeship, Trump II making it hard on red states, and $1.6 billion in grants listings.
LockSimple

Jul 11, 2025

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19 min read

Discriminating in apprenticeship, Trump II making it hard on red states, and $1.6 billion in grants listings.

Plus, the grant still paying out, immigrants and workforce dollars, and what's up with missing workforce funding.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
WANTO's weird comeback.
LockSimple

Jul 10, 2025

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15 min read

WANTO's weird comeback.

The Trump II DOL's 'realignment' of a key apprenticeship grant brings back Biden priorities (sort of). Here is why that's concerning.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
Well, we'll definitely have fewer people going to college.

Jul 8, 2025

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13 min read

Well, we'll definitely have fewer people going to college.

The workforce costs of the changes to student loans and how four-year schools could use the new Workforce Pell to survive.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
What veterans’ hiring problem says about all hiring in a tightening market.
LockSimple

Jul 2, 2025

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13 min read

What veterans’ hiring problem says about all hiring in a tightening market.

Plus, the Trump Administration freezes more grant money.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
Possible DOL grant freeze, a big apprenticeship redo, and $155 million in grants listings.
LockSimple

Jun 27, 2025

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21 min read

Possible DOL grant freeze, a big apprenticeship redo, and $155 million in grants listings.

Plus, bad news for Workforce Pell, good math for Job Corps, and a question about DOGE and grant awards.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
We don't need more 'good jobs' definitions. We need to make them real.

Jun 24, 2025

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11 min read

We don't need more 'good jobs' definitions. We need to make them real.

We have too many job quality frameworks and not enough tools that make it easier to offer good jobs.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
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