Expert on American workforce development. Former Department of Labor workforce chief of staff.
Jul 14, 2026
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7 min read
Confirming skills is a roadblock to better ways of hiring. How can we fix it?
Grant listings.
Jul 10, 2026
11 min read
Plus, more workforce funding from around the federal government.
THE MONEY
Jul 9, 2026
9 min read
Plus, there's a lot to unpack in a new big-money DOL workforce grant.
Jul 7, 2026
8 min read
The last six months have been a year. What happens next?
Jul 2, 2026
Plus, more behavioral health training grants from HHS.
Jul 1, 2026
6 min read
Plus, the apprenticeship change that's surprisingly not final yet.
Exclusive
Jun 30, 2026
3 min read
There likely will be some big feelings about one of the funds.
Jun 26, 2026
10 min read
Plus, California's back, y'all.
Jun 25, 2026
Pushback on pay-to-train incentives, Congress, and setting the table ahead of a big week for Trump II's apprenticeship efforts.
Interviews
Jun 23, 2026
What does it take to actually bring education and workforce together?
Jun 18, 2026
12 min read
Plus, new money for researching inequality and a state grant connecting students to manufacturing.
Jun 17, 2026
Plus, another potential red flag for the Trump Administration's big shift on federal grants.
Jun 16, 2026
Helping employers and workers do the work to create the world to come.
Jun 12, 2026
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
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
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.
