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A promising AI workforce project, 'braiding' funding, and 'Cheesecake Factory Menu Grants.'

Jun 17, 2026

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9 min read

A promising AI workforce project, 'braiding' funding, and 'Cheesecake Factory Menu Grants.'

Plus, another potential red flag for the Trump Administration's big shift on federal grants.

Nick Beadle

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AI isn't a magic wand for work, with College Board's Sophia Romee.

Jun 16, 2026

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10 min read

AI isn't a magic wand for work, with College Board's Sophia Romee.

Helping employers and workers do the work to create the world to come.

Nick Beadle

Grant listings.

$4.1 billion in ed and workforce grants listings, including big new DOL grants for apprenticeship and rural workers.

Jun 12, 2026

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11 min read

$4.1 billion in ed and workforce grants listings, including big new DOL grants for apprenticeship and rural workers.

Plus, new mine safety money.

Nick Beadle

THE MONEY

The blindspots keeping current workforce policy from, you know, doing stuff.

Jun 11, 2026

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10 min read

The blindspots keeping current workforce policy from, you know, doing stuff.

House Republicans advance another annihilator bill for workforce. Plus, a couple of key returning DOL programs and their puzzling Trump II-installed limitations.

Nick Beadle

If it doesn't make sense, that's because it doesn't.

Jun 10, 2026

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6 min read

If it doesn't make sense, that's because it doesn't.

The lost plot in the current workforce conversations in Washington.

Nick Beadle

Someone wants to light the money on fire again.

The House GOP's latest unserious plan to gut American workforce spending.

Jun 9, 2026

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9 min read

The House GOP's latest unserious plan to gut American workforce spending.

What gets cut, what gets increased(?), and who should be worried.

Nick Beadle

Grant listings.

$4.2 billion in ed and workforce grants listings, including money for building Workforce Pell and entrepreneurship.

Jun 5, 2026

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11 min read

$4.2 billion in ed and workforce grants listings, including money for building Workforce Pell and entrepreneurship.

Plus, a quick congressional update.

Nick Beadle

THE MONEY

The big, bad changes coming to federal grants.

Jun 4, 2026

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11 min read

The big, bad changes coming to federal grants.

How a proposed Trump redo of grants rules shifts the ways organizations can get workforce cash and keep it.

Nick Beadle

If we want Pell to help apprenticeship, we need a Pell just for apprenticeship.

Jun 2, 2026

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6 min read

If we want Pell to help apprenticeship, we need a Pell just for apprenticeship.

Fact and fiction on how much Workforce Pell will help apprenticeship, and an idea for what could.

Nick Beadle

Grant listings.

$4.3 billion in ed and workforce grants listings, including new civics and rural dollars.

May 29, 2026

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11 min read

$4.3 billion in ed and workforce grants listings, including new civics and rural dollars.

Plus a couple dates to mind if you're seeking Department of Education dollars.

Nick Beadle

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A promising AI workforce project, 'braiding' funding, and 'Cheesecake Factory Menu Grants.'

AI isn't a magic wand for work, with College Board's Sophia Romee.

$4.1 billion in ed and workforce grants listings, including big new DOL grants for apprenticeship and rural workers.

The blindspots keeping current workforce policy from, you know, doing stuff.

If it doesn't make sense, that's because it doesn't.

The House GOP's latest unserious plan to gut American workforce spending.

$4.2 billion in ed and workforce grants listings, including money for building Workforce Pell and entrepreneurship.

The big, bad changes coming to federal grants.

If we want Pell to help apprenticeship, we need a Pell just for apprenticeship.

$4.3 billion in ed and workforce grants listings, including new civics and rural dollars.

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