Expert on American workforce development. Former Department of Labor workforce chief of staff.
Grant listings.
Jun 18, 2026
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12 min read
Plus, new money for researching inequality and a state grant connecting students to manufacturing.
THE MONEY
Jun 17, 2026
9 min read
Plus, another potential red flag for the Trump Administration's big shift on federal grants.
Interviews
Jun 16, 2026
10 min read
Helping employers and workers do the work to create the world to come.
Jun 12, 2026
11 min read
Plus, new mine safety money.
Jun 11, 2026
House Republicans advance another annihilator bill for workforce. Plus, a couple of key returning DOL programs and their puzzling Trump II-installed limitations.
Jun 10, 2026
6 min read
The lost plot in the current workforce conversations in Washington.
Someone wants to light the money on fire again.
Jun 9, 2026
What gets cut, what gets increased(?), and who should be worried.
+1
Jun 5, 2026
Plus, a quick congressional update.
Jun 4, 2026
How a proposed Trump redo of grants rules shifts the ways organizations can get workforce cash and keep it.
Jun 2, 2026
Fact and fiction on how much Workforce Pell will help apprenticeship, and an idea for what could.
May 29, 2026
Plus a couple dates to mind if you're seeking Department of Education dollars.
May 28, 2026
Plus, the Acting Labor Secretary gets grilled on the Hill, and the apprenticeship wars to come.
May 26, 2026
8 min read
Debating the consumer-protection side of apprenticeship and creating more choices than 'College or Chipotle?'
May 22, 2026
Plus, new private funding.
An interesting new business report on apprenticeship, the Final Pell-ening, and trying to broaden Republicans' workforce horizons.
Best of.
May 19, 2026
Why are we choosing?
May 15, 2026
Plus, new manufacturing money and state grants.
May 14, 2026
Also: apprenticeship in Education funding and whether that means anything, and new Ed-DOL merger developments.
May 12, 2026
5 min read
Predictability, and how public money doesn't help.
May 8, 2026
Plus, funding for teacher quality, mentorship for foreign-born talent, and workforce development in energy-transition communities.
Plus, possible signs of stability at DOL and more on that numbers game in apprenticeship.
May 5, 2026
Employers don't have much incentive to change how they hire, despite many reasons to do so. What can policymakers do?
May 1, 2026
More Education money, plus new HHS money with workforce ties.
Apr 30, 2026
13 min read
Plus, National Apprenticeship Weeks brings some news-type substances and legislation, and the tricky challenges in hiring for a labor secretary.
Apr 28, 2026
What's the best pitch, and the right dollar amount, to incentivize more American employers to try apprenticeship?
