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Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle

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

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
Still workin': Job training has a golden population the money can’t reach.

Aug 18, 2026

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5 min read

Still workin': Job training has a golden population the money can’t reach.

The unsweet spot of workers with too few and too many needs at the same time.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
$2.6 billion in ed and workforce grants listings, including new energy and family-focused cash.
LockSimple

Aug 14, 2026

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7 min read

$2.6 billion in ed and workforce grants listings, including new energy and family-focused cash.

Plus, Pennsylvania and registered... pre-apprenticeships.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
What's actually being built from the Trump workforce blueprint?

Aug 13, 2026

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9 min read

What's actually being built from the Trump workforce blueprint?

A year in, a look at what Trump II has done under its big workforce plan.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
What employers need to invest in workforce development, with Workforce Edge's Dan Marsella.

Aug 11, 2026

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5 min read

What employers need to invest in workforce development, with Workforce Edge's Dan Marsella.

Employers might not want to invest just to invest.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
$2.6 billion in ed and workforce grants listings, including new AI, space, and farming money.
LockSimple

Aug 7, 2026

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8 min read

$2.6 billion in ed and workforce grants listings, including new AI, space, and farming money.

Plus, small business stuff and job training for older workers.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
Don't celebrate the Senate's roadblock to new Trump grants rules just yet.

Aug 6, 2026

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10 min read

Don't celebrate the Senate's roadblock to new Trump grants rules just yet.

Plus, HHS will get 'dignity of work' fellows and the Education Secretary's uninspiring sales job for the Ed-DOL merger.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
Still workin': The killer app for good jobs.

Aug 4, 2026

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4 min read

Still workin': The killer app for good jobs.

One weird trick for helping employers and workers get ahead.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
$2.6 billion in ed and workforce grants listings, including new community-building money.
LockSimple

Jul 31, 2026

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8 min read

$2.6 billion in ed and workforce grants listings, including new community-building money.

Plus, a rage 'fetch' update.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle

THE MONEY

Rewiring taxes to keep humans employed, Workforce Pell, and an interesting Job Corps idea.

Jul 30, 2026

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8 min read

Rewiring taxes to keep humans employed, Workforce Pell, and an interesting Job Corps idea.

Plus, the GOP continues its weird relationship with one pot of Labor money.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
Maybe workforce should think beyond 'scale.'

Jul 28, 2026

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5 min read

Maybe workforce should think beyond 'scale.'

The problem with growing without knowing where you're going.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
$2.6 billion in ed and workforce grants listings, including new Commerce manufacturing funding.
LockSimple

Jul 24, 2026

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10 min read

$2.6 billion in ed and workforce grants listings, including new Commerce manufacturing funding.

Plus, an eye on what's likely coming soon.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
Big leadership changes and a big punt from Congress raise questions about federal jobs policy.

Jul 23, 2026

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7 min read

Big leadership changes and a big punt from Congress raise questions about federal jobs policy.

Plus, a potential softening on Job Corps and a notable legal loss for Trump II.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
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