Governors & State Workforce Systems: Building More Inclusive and Prosperous Economies
- Project on Workforce Team
- May 20, 2024
- 1 min read
Updated: Apr 1
Read our recent reports, including Governors Reshaping Workforce Development: Turning WIOA Challenges into Workforce Solutions, on how Governors are leveraging WIOA and other policies to design, fund, and implement workforce development strategies in an evolving economic landscape; as well as Workforce Strategies for New Industrial Policies: Governors’ Emerging Solutions, which highlights how Governors are leveraging new industrial policy opportunities to strengthen workforce development and meet labor market needs.
The Project on Workforce is conducting a joint research project with the National Governors Association to investigate how Governors are leading their state workforce systems to build more inclusive and prosperous economies.
Governors have substantial authority over workforce development under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act and related statutes, but surprisingly little is known about how they’re executing those powers. Through qualitative interviews and surveys of Governors’ workforce advisors, we will uncover how they are:
Developing state workforce strategies.
Directing funds to meet workforce needs.
Ensuring program and service quality.
Promoting coordination with the postsecondary and economic development systems.
Leveraging new federal funding streams, like CHIPS, IRA and IIJA to meet workforce needs.
Stay tuned by following our newsletter and LinkedIn page as we share insights, promising practices, and policy recommendations over the next year. We thank Strada Education Foundation for their support of this work.
Project on Workforce Team
Joe Fuller
Kerry McKittrick
Nathalie Gazzaneo
Ariel Higuchi
National Governors Association Team
Jack Porter
Sophia Yager
Jordan Morang
Malena Dailey