CLASP

This brief highlights ASWA's shortcomings and offers groundbreaking solutions to enhance WIOA, paving the way for a more inclusive and worker-centered workforce development system. 

This brief describes some of the critical updates the House bill makes to WIOA. It also offers CLASP's recommendations for Congress to build toward a workforce system that empowers workers and helps create broadly shared prosperity.

This brief outlines key changes to current law in the House WIOA bill for youth workforce programs that was passed on May 17, 2022.

The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) is the federal legislation governing the public workforce system—and it is up for reauthorization for the first time since 2014. As Congress considers reauthorization, CLASP recommends focusing on five priorities to help people secure better jobs.

This fact sheet shows how the programs funded under the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), the nation’s primary investment in workforce development, are neither funded nor structured to accommodate the sharply increased need created by proposed Medicaid work requirements.

CLASP submitted comments to California on WIOA Performance Guidance

This fact sheet explains how to improve states’ priority of service for high-need adults in WIOA state plan updates.

This fact sheet analyzes significant cuts to our nation's investment in workforce training and employment services at the U.S. Department of Labor.  

This report analyzes a survey of WIOA and TANF state administrators CLASP conducted and makes recommendations to improve coordination between TANF's employment and training programs and other federal workforce development services that are currently available.

CLASP hosted a webinar with the National Coalition for Literacy on integrated education and training.