BRIEF TIMELINE OF WORKFORCE EDUCATION LEGISLATION:
1966: Adult Education Act - established, among many things, educational programs (age 16+) which emphasized skills which help individuals succeed in the workforce.
1998: Workforce Investment Act - created and provided career centers for peoples hoping to gain information on how to advance or begin their careers, including low-income individuals, women, and minorities (2).
2014: Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act - enacted by Obama, the WIOA retains and amends the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act of 1988, the Wagner-Peyser Act (1933), and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. It requires states to strategically align workforce development programs, promotes program accountability and transparency, fosters regional collaboration, improves the American Job Center (AJC) System, improves services to employers and promotes work-based training, provides access to high quality training, makes key investments in serving disconnected youth and other vulnerable populations, etc. (3)
1966: Adult Education Act - established, among many things, educational programs (age 16+) which emphasized skills which help individuals succeed in the workforce.
1998: Workforce Investment Act - created and provided career centers for peoples hoping to gain information on how to advance or begin their careers, including low-income individuals, women, and minorities (2).
2014: Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act - enacted by Obama, the WIOA retains and amends the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act of 1988, the Wagner-Peyser Act (1933), and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. It requires states to strategically align workforce development programs, promotes program accountability and transparency, fosters regional collaboration, improves the American Job Center (AJC) System, improves services to employers and promotes work-based training, provides access to high quality training, makes key investments in serving disconnected youth and other vulnerable populations, etc. (3)
Consider this before moving on: How has past legislation affected you, as a women or otherwise? If you don't believe that it has, how do you expect that it has affected those around you? Or, furthermore, what has it made possible for minorities, women in particular?