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Everything is on fire again, and $1.5 billion in grant listings.
LockSimple

Apr 25, 2025

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19 min read

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 Trump Administration.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
Trump finds his jobs policy. It’s kind of like Joe Biden’s, but with more cuts.
LockSimple

Apr 24, 2025

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2 min read

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.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
Cannabis makes a lot of money. The law makes it too hard to spend that money on workers.

Apr 22, 2025

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14 min read

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.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
Are federal grants still worth your time? Here is how I'm thinking about it right now.
LockSimple

Apr 18, 2025

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16 min read

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.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
Still workin’: The problem with skills-based hiring? Hiring.

Apr 15, 2025

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11 min read

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.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle

THE MONEY

FEMA kills a big red state grant, a key ‘DEIA’ choice, and $2.1 billion in grants listings. Probably.
LockSimple

Apr 11, 2025

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20 min read

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.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
Why getting people jobs is harder without equity.

Apr 8, 2025

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12 min read

Why getting people jobs is harder without equity.

The War on ‘Woke’ is also a war on workforce development that works.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
A DEIA win, Project 2025 author nominated for DOL chief lawyer, and $2.9 billion in grants listings.
LockSimple

Apr 4, 2025

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18 min read

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.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
The labor market is tapdancing into a bear trap. Is Friday the day it snaps?

Apr 1, 2025

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17 min read

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 should we be doing?

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle

THE MONEY

Congress complicates the Trump-DOGE Burn Everything Plan.
LockSimple

Mar 28, 2025

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20 min read

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.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
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