“WIA’s performance measurement system may be causing some clients to be denied services and does not provide an accurate picture of WIA’s effectiveness,” Nilsen testified.
A panel of representatives from local workforce boards in Florida, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington and Wyoming voiced similar concerns.
Home Builders Institute, the workforce development arm of NAHB, is watching the legislation closely because it helps local and state home builders associations access WIA funds and works with state and local workforce boards to help implement workforce development programs for the construction industry.
HBI is the largest training contractor in the Department of Labor's Job Corps program, which is authorized by WIA.
A number of other HBI programs receive funding from programs that are authorized by WIA.
HBI’s Project Craft/Nashville receives funds from the WIA-authorized Youth Activities Office. And its Doors to Success program for women veterans is funded by the Veterans’ Employment and Training Service, which is also authorized by WIA.
The full Senate is expected to vote on the bill before it departs for its August recess on July 25.
To read this legislation, click here, and enter H.R. 1261 into the box at the upper left.
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