key domestic priorities in the obama administration and their impact on workforce development bob...
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Key Domestic Priorities in the Obama
Administration and Their Impact on
Workforce Development
Bob Knight
Arbor Workforce Institute
Workforce New York2009 Spring Conference
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What Are the Intended and Unintended Results of a Policy?
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1. American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
• Youth and Summer Jobs
• Green Jobs and Healthcare Jobs
• Focus on Low-skill and Low-wage Workers
• Training, Training, Training
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IS ARRA TRANSFORMATIVE?
What Do We Mean?• Sectoral • Regional• Expanding Training• Training Brokers• Public Influence• Key Players
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2. Health Care Reform
• Worker Security/Mobility
• Wage Impacts• Impact on Health
Care Job Market• Added Pressure to
Eliminate Low Skill Jobs
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3. Enhanced UI System
• Extended Benefits• Increased Benefits• Expanded Eligibility
Pool• Payroll Taxes• Job Sharing• Retrain/Upgrade
Benefits for Employed
• Impact on Incentive to Work
• Impact on Ability to Enter Training
• Better Job Matching?
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4. Immigration Policy
• Responding to U.S. Skill Needs
• Need for Unskilled Workers
• Services in One-Stops
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5. GREEN JOBS• $500 million competitive
WIA grants• Expectations for
Emphasis in “Regular” WIA Programs
• Strong Organizational Structures Tied to Many Social Issues
• Sometimes Critical of Current WIA System
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6. Education Policy
• No Child Left Behind
• Higher Ed Act
• Student Loans, Pell Grants, ITAs
• Incumbent Worker
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But Train For What?
• Healthcare Pipeline Full• Some DW’s Stand Best
Chance to Train for Good Paying Jobs
• Basic skills and soft skills issues to deal with
• Older workers• TANF disincentives
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As far as the eye can see7. Setting Priorities With Deficits
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How Support Lifelong Learning?
STABLE
KNOWLEDGE
MORPHS TO
CONTINUOUS
LEARNING
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Other, Perhaps Related, Factors
• Environment and Energy
• Global Stability: War and Peace
• Veteran Services
• Unionization as an Antidote to Stagnate and Low Wages, Wage Disparities, Organizational Change and ???