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Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle

Expert on American workforce development. Former Department of Labor workforce chief of staff.

Can the business case for workforce catch up to what moves employers?

Oct 13, 2026

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4 min read

Can the business case for workforce catch up to what moves employers?

The big idea that doesn't move employers as much as policymakers think. Also, a short discussion about ketchup.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
$3.9 billion in ed and workforce grants listings, including new... solid waste money.
LockSimple

Oct 9, 2026

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8 min read

$3.9 billion in ed and workforce grants listings, including new... solid waste money.

Plus, agriculture and food money that is not related to solid waste.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
What's Workforce Pell missing so far? Jobs that pay living wages.

Oct 8, 2026

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7 min read

What's Workforce Pell missing so far? Jobs that pay living wages.

Plus, MoneyWatch continues and a new Labor Secretary.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
A job isn't good enough anymore.

Oct 6, 2026

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6 min read

A job isn't good enough anymore.

September's hiring numbers, wages versus inflation, and the conversation that workforce policymakers still struggle with.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
$3.9 billion in ed and workforce grants listings, including a massive new Army STEM funding.
LockSimple

Oct 2, 2026

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8 min read

$3.9 billion in ed and workforce grants listings, including a massive new Army STEM funding.

Plus, returning Transportation money.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
Where's the money? And why might $43 million of it have big issues?

Oct 1, 2026

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9 min read

Where's the money? And why might $43 million of it have big issues?

Plus, a workforce-relevant political ad to pay attention to.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
We need better than the 'apprenticeships and stuff' political platform.

Sep 29, 2026

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7 min read

We need better than the 'apprenticeships and stuff' political platform.

Every election is a jobs election. So why is workforce still a niche issue, politically?

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
$2.5 billion in ed and workforce grants listings.
LockSimple

Sep 25, 2026

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8 min read

$2.5 billion in ed and workforce grants listings.

Plus, a defense grant with a pretty big flag.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
Fresh White House grants shenanigans, a big Pell announcement, and an apprenticeship crystal ball.

Sep 24, 2026

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10 min read

Fresh White House grants shenanigans, a big Pell announcement, and an apprenticeship crystal ball.

When will the latest Trump pay-to-train incentives become available? Are some states in the crosshairs? Plus, of course, shenanigans.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
What to watch one week from a big workforce grants deadline.

Sep 23, 2026

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5 min read

What to watch one week from a big workforce grants deadline.

The big end-of-fiscal-year spend is coming. Here's what I'm paying attention to.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
Opening the door from jail to jobs, with Joshua Johnson.

Sep 22, 2026

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8 min read

Opening the door from jail to jobs, with Joshua Johnson.

Getting employers and workers returning from prison in the right headspace to work together.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
$2.5 billion in ed and workforce grants listings, with new forest workforce dollars.
LockSimple

Sep 18, 2026

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9 min read

$2.5 billion in ed and workforce grants listings, with new forest workforce dollars.

Plus, some thoughts on where the money's at.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
There's a lot to digest in new apprenticeship numbers.

Sep 17, 2026

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10 min read

There's a lot to digest in new apprenticeship numbers.

Plus, pay-to-train incentives, the most absurd workforce grants deadline of the year, and why it’s so hard to find state workforce grants.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
The fix needed out in the sticks.

Sep 15, 2026

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5 min read

The fix needed out in the sticks.

Rural workforce grants, how they could be better, and what we could learn from improving them.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
$2.5 billion in ed and workforce grants listings, with big-dollar agricultural and international grants.
LockSimple

Sep 11, 2026

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9 min read

$2.5 billion in ed and workforce grants listings, with big-dollar agricultural and international grants.

Plus, newly added state apprenticeship, farmworker, and EV grants.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
Will big workforce changes have the juice in the next Congress?

Sep 10, 2026

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7 min read

Will big workforce changes have the juice in the next Congress?

Plus, pre-apprenticeship finally rises from its grave.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
The mommas and grandparents problem.

Sep 8, 2026

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5 min read

The mommas and grandparents problem.

Why it's harder than political leaders might think to get people jazzed about their kids not going to college.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
$2.5 billion in ed and workforce grants listings, with $80 million for workers to belong in a museum.
LockSimple

Sep 4, 2026

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8 min read

$2.5 billion in ed and workforce grants listings, with $80 million for workers to belong in a museum.

Plus, state grants for quantum computing, housing, and electric vehicle infrastructure.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
What three governors' races could mean for workforce.

Sep 3, 2026

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6 min read

What three governors' races could mean for workforce.

Plus, Congress makes everyone's lives easier for once.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
Workers don’t care what jobs you want them to have.

Sep 1, 2026

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8 min read

Workers don’t care what jobs you want them to have.

Especially if the people making decisions on business and policy aren't doing much to help them get there.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
$2.1 billion in ed and workforce grants listings, including new Army and USDA grants.
LockSimple

Aug 28, 2026

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6 min read

$2.1 billion in ed and workforce grants listings, including new Army and USDA grants.

Plus, adding a state rolling grant fund for new employers.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
Who got $24 million in federal workforce grants that oddly haven't been announced?

Aug 27, 2026

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5 min read

Who got $24 million in federal workforce grants that oddly haven't been announced?

Also, where might one $65 million project be?

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
Growing out of workforce's political fairytales about 'business.'

Aug 25, 2026

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6 min read

Growing out of workforce's political fairytales about 'business.'

How even the most business-y of business measures to involve business in workforce don't seem to work (with business).

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
$2.5 billion in ed and workforce grants listings, including money for all the water jobs.
LockSimple

Aug 21, 2026

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7 min read

$2.5 billion in ed and workforce grants listings, including money for all the water jobs.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
Red-state apprenticeship mysteries and Workforce Pell wage questions.

Aug 20, 2026

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7 min read

Red-state apprenticeship mysteries and Workforce Pell wage questions.

Plus, Trump II brings back good jobs funding. Sort of.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
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