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Reauthorize the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act to meet the needs of workers and small businesses

Dear [elected official],

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It has been a decade since WIOA was passed in 2014, and our nation’s skills policies need to be updated to meet today’s economic moment. This is especially true after Congress made over $1 billion in investments in skills training through major federal legislation; massive economic displacement from a global pandemic; and new attention to the nation’s history of structural racism.

These changes most impact small businesses, women, people of color, those without education beyond high school, and those who worked in industries devastated in the pandemic, and others who face structural barriers in accessing and benefiting from the public workforce system.

This is the bill that will govern our workforce and adult education system for the next decade, and so it’s crucial that Congress gets it right by implementing the following policies:

1. Invest in high-quality skills training, economic supports, and pathways to quality jobs.
2.Guarantee high-quality skills training for qualifying workers through new Skills Training Grants.
3. Create a new 21st Century Sector Partnerships Grant Program to develop a national network of high performing industry/sector partnerships and implement career pathways that advance workforce equity and job quality.
4. Provide Digital Skills at Work grants and expand IET programs that build digital, literacy, numeracy, and language skills in the context of occupational education or training.   
5. Provide accountability for our workforce system to contribute to an inclusive economy.
6. Strengthen the delivery of equity-advancing career services to better meet the needs of working people and people of color, in particular.

The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) was passed in 2014, with the same type of Congressional makeup currently in office: a Republican-majority House, Democratic-majority Senate, and Democratic President. WIOA created new opportunities for workers and businesses and was intended to shift the system from work-first policies that restricted access to benefits and curtailed training to a greater focus on skills and careers. Now, a reauthorization of WIOA can make similar positive reform.

Thank you for your consideration!

Sincerely, [Your information here]

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