Today, the Vice President released his report at the signing of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act. WIOA modernizes and streamlines the Workforce Investment Act, which sends nearly $3 billion a year to states for job-training and education programs.
The team at The Cambridge Housing Authority’s (CHA) The Work Force youth program (TWF) in Cambridge, Mass. is excited that after years of delay, the $3 billion-a-year Workforce Investment Act appears poised for reauthorization this summer as the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA).
While growing up in the U.K., Christian Haigh saw upward mobility and promise in the United States. Now as an Opportunity Nation Scholar he wants to help America live up to the promise of the American Dream.
Opportunity Nation continues its exciting partnership with Citi Foundation that explores how civic engagement can spur the accrual of social capital, which in turn opens doors of opportunity.