Public Policy Blog

ASTD held its annual Awards ceremony last night here in Chicago after a full day of ASTD 2010 conference exposition activities. Beverly Kaye received the Distinguished Contribution award...

Over the past 6 months, ASTD has been on Hill conducting meetings with staff of the Senate and House Republicans on this issue and offering our expertise and our members feedback on what...

When the Bush Administration had both the House and Senate in control with the Republicans, the Democrats stalled any legislation. In 2006, when Democrats won the House back, they felt that...

The ASTD BEST Awards recognize organizations that demonstrate enterprise-wide success as a result of employee learning and development. Companies who win a BEST Award will: Be honored for...

The House and Senate Committees responsible for its reauthorization have been meeting in February. The full House Education and Labor Committee invited Secretary of Labor Solis to update...

Happy New Year to all! Congress is moving forward on the Jobs Bill and Workforce Investment Act Reauthorization As we get back to work, so does Congress.

Since Congress has been knee deep in the health care debate, it has been difficult to focus staff on other issues. But, now that the House has passed their version of the bill, members of...

It is confirmed that Jeffrey Zients, the nations first Chief Performance Officer, will be speaking at the upcoming conference hosted by The Public Manager and the American Society for...

As many of your know, local and state workforce investment boards (WIBs) are in a position, as part of their role, to certify industry recognized certification and training programs that...

For those of you who regularly read my blog, thank you for that. The reality is that health care and other legislative priorities are taking up much of the legislative agenda for now, and...

Everyone knows that Congress is out on summer break in August. For someone who has lived in the Washington Metropolitan area for 25 years, the town tends to slow down, along with the...

As mentioned in several previous blog postings, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) allocated $750 Million to the Department of Labor (DOL) in competitive grants to help grow...

Two weeks ago, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP), took a short break from the health care issue to discuss the publicly funded workforce system and the...

For those of you who have read through my Blog: first, thank you for reading second, we have been tracking and highlighting the Recovery Act funds since February and the first set of...

We had our members going to the Hill educated on the issues and on how to engage members of Congress and their staffs the key issues we see regarding training in this Congressional session....

Our bags are packed, and we are ready to go! Our main goal is to meet with our Congressional members and to start to develop a working partnership with them on training and workforce...

More and more, state governments are involved in allocating state resources for worker training, retraining and tax credits to incentivize businesses to expand, grow and keep workers in...

Interested in learning more about the training and workforce development issues that are discussed on Capitol Hill? This is an opportunity to schedule meetings with your Senator or...

The Obama administration this past week announced its nominee for the very important position of the Assistant Secretary for the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) of the...

This past week, the Department of Labor (DOL) released over $4 billion in worker training funds to the states as part of the Americas Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRC). Some of these...