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Nick Beadle

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

Rewiring Ed dollars to workforce, blue states' chances at Trump money, and $3.9 billion in grant listings.
LockSimple

Mar 19, 2026

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24 min read

Rewiring Ed dollars to workforce, blue states' chances at Trump money, and $3.9 billion in grant listings.

Plus, another AI-invested company starts a construction apprenticeship partnership.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
Still workin': How student loan changes could make worker shortages worse.

Mar 17, 2026

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12 min read

Still workin': How student loan changes could make worker shortages worse.

And how universities might use Workforce Pell as a way to survive.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
Lighting the fuse on a potential apprenticeship blowup.

Mar 13, 2026

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15 min read

Lighting the fuse on a potential apprenticeship blowup.

Hungry for growth, Trump II signals it's going to try to fix one of the apprenticeship's gnarliest problems.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
Trump II making Trump II's job harder on apprenticeship, Workforce Pell, and $3.7 billion in grants listings.
LockSimple

Mar 12, 2026

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24 min read

Trump II making Trump II's job harder on apprenticeship, Workforce Pell, and $3.7 billion in grants listings.

Plus, NABTU and OpenAI join forces on skilled trades training.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
How a PBS station in Eastern Washington created one of the best workforce tools I've seen.

Mar 10, 2026

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13 min read

How a PBS station in Eastern Washington created one of the best workforce tools I've seen.

And what policymakers and employers can learn from it.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
WIOA redo talk, why Arkansas got paid, The Turducken Scandal, and $3.8 billion in grants.
LockSimple

Mar 5, 2026

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26 min read

WIOA redo talk, why Arkansas got paid, The Turducken Scandal, and $3.8 billion in grants.

Plus, the appropriations process lives, big companies and apprenticeship, and Congress talks the Ed-DOL marriage's strain.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
Trump wants to 'reimagine' unemployment, an $81 million mashup, and $3.6 billion in grants listings.
LockSimple

Feb 26, 2026

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24 min read

Trump wants to 'reimagine' unemployment, an $81 million mashup, and $3.6 billion in grants listings.

Plus, DOL reboots workforce programs for returning prisoners and sexual assault allegations enter the Labor Secretary scandal.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
Can Ed's toothpaste go back in the tube?

Feb 24, 2026

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17 min read

Can Ed's toothpaste go back in the tube?

A lot is riding on the Education-DOL merger, which is far from permanent in its construction.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
$65 million for starting up Workforce Pell, how to market apprenticeship, and $7.5 billion in grants listings.
LockSimple

Feb 19, 2026

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24 min read

$65 million for starting up Workforce Pell, how to market apprenticeship, and $7.5 billion in grants listings.

Plus, DOL publishes a useful new AI framework and a new-old workforce bill in the Senate.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
The Robots vs. The Teens, with Tallo CEO Allison Danielsen.

Feb 18, 2026

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16 min read

The Robots vs. The Teens, with Tallo CEO Allison Danielsen.

How do you build education for young people that leads to jobs and better lives in the age of AI?

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
Untangling Trump II’s big apprenticeship competition.
LockSimple

Feb 17, 2026

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10 min read

Untangling Trump II’s big apprenticeship competition.

The $145 million has a few more strings than workforce organizations might have hoped.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
What's next for workforce on the Hill, what's up with DOL's apprenticeship money, and $7.3 billion in grants listings.
LockSimple

Feb 12, 2026

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22 min read

What's next for workforce on the Hill, what's up with DOL's apprenticeship money, and $7.3 billion in grants listings.

Plus, public-sector skills-first hiring and now there are two scandals that could impact federal workforce dollars.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
Getting through Workforce Pell's state freakout stage.

Feb 10, 2026

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9 min read

Getting through Workforce Pell's state freakout stage.

States are getting anxious about how much Workforce Pell puts on them. How should they plan ahead?

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
Congress doesn't break workforce funding, apprenticeship weirdness (again), and $7.3 billion in grants listings.
LockSimple

Feb 5, 2026

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17 min read

Congress doesn't break workforce funding, apprenticeship weirdness (again), and $7.3 billion in grants listings.

Plus, the latest on the Labor Secretary scandal.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
Big employers' prove-it moment on workforce.

Feb 4, 2026

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17 min read

Big employers' prove-it moment on workforce.

Trump II is spending big on pay-to-train incentives that seem to answer a lot of employer gripes about workforce spending. Will big employers live up to their side of the bargain?

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
Apprenticeship's big weird week, shutdown angst, and $7.3 billion in grants listings.
LockSimple

Jan 29, 2026

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21 min read

Apprenticeship's big weird week, shutdown angst, and $7.3 billion in grants listings.

Plus, a little detail that could have a big impact in DOL's manufacturing apprenticeship fund, a Senate race to watch, and the workforce money to keep an eye out for this spring.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
We need whole answers, not half measures, in jobs policy.

Jan 28, 2026

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7 min read

We need whole answers, not half measures, in jobs policy.

Where I think things stand after a year of JOBS THAT WORK.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
The turn in the Labor Secretary scandal that could leave a mark on workforce awards.
LockSimple

Jan 27, 2026

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14 min read

The turn in the Labor Secretary scandal that could leave a mark on workforce awards.

There could be some new scrutiny ahead for DOL grantees, including one of its key apprenticeship grants.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
The Labor Secretary scandal grows, a key new skills-first partnership, and $7.3 billion in grants listings.
LockSimple

Jan 22, 2026

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26 min read

The Labor Secretary scandal grows, a key new skills-first partnership, and $7.3 billion in grants listings.

Plus, the limited protection of new "protections" in the Congress' spending plan and the big questions about the Ed-DOL merger.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
Codifying Job Corps' purgatory, and other good-but-bad news in Congress' new workforce funding plan.
LockSimple

Jan 21, 2026

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10 min read

Codifying Job Corps' purgatory, and other good-but-bad news in Congress' new workforce funding plan.

For better and worse, it would be the status quo.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
Rethinking workforce training and spending, with Guild’s Zoe Weintraub Barrett.

Jan 20, 2026

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14 min read

Rethinking workforce training and spending, with Guild’s Zoe Weintraub Barrett.

What tools and thinking do we need to navigate this unique moment for jobs?

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
The Labor Secretary spending scandal, aspirations vs. reality in Trump II's workforce plans, and $7.4 billion in grants listings.
LockSimple

Jan 15, 2026

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22 min read

The Labor Secretary spending scandal, aspirations vs. reality in Trump II's workforce plans, and $7.4 billion in grants listings.

Plus, Trump II's workforce leaders talk about their plans for what's next.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
How to get smarter AI jobs projects.

Jan 13, 2026

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15 min read

How to get smarter AI jobs projects.

A nuts-and-bolts breakdown of how funders can build workforce projects that work.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
Here are nearly a dozen unannounced DOL awards.
LockSimple

Jan 9, 2026

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11 min read

Here are nearly a dozen unannounced DOL awards.

Plus, the return of DOL international funding and faith versus AI in a federal workforce grant (kinda).

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
Big money for apprenticeship, a mushy Senate workforce block grant plan, and $7.3 billion in grants listings.
LockSimple

Jan 8, 2026

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22 min read

Big money for apprenticeship, a mushy Senate workforce block grant plan, and $7.3 billion in grants listings.

Plus, the AI apprenti-shift evidently continues, and Congress lurks.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
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