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Statement of the National Youth Employment Coalition on HR 7309, the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2022
Statement of the National Youth Employment Coalition on HR 7309, the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2022 On Tuesday, the House Education and Labor Committee passed HR 7309, a bill to reauthorize the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA). The National Youth Employment Coalition (NYEC) improves the lives of the millions of young people…
Read MoreNYEC Federal Policy Roundup (2/25/22)
This Week’s Update Supreme Court Nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson: If confirmed, she would be the first Supreme Court Justice to have worked as a public defender – and the first Justice since Thurgood Marshall with significant experience defending (rather than prosecuting) criminal defendants. She also served on the U.S. Sentencing Commission during a time…
Read MoreNYEC Federal Policy Roundup (2/14/22)
BBB: We’ve been hearing that anything branded BBB is unlikely to pass. This article in Politico indicates that the BBB bill is dead but that reconciliation may still be a vehicle to move some of these ideas forward. If there is a smaller package, pieces we care about may be included in some way. Sen. Manchin…
Read MoreNYEC Federal Policy Roundup (2/4/22)
BBB news: It’s unclear how much momentum is behind Rep. Pramila Jayapal’s proposal for Congress to pass the most popular portions of the $1.7 trillion Build Back Better (BBB) social spending package. Sen. Manchin said Build Back Better in its current form is “dead,” and this week seemed focused on amendments to the tax code as…
Read MoreNYEC Federal Policy Roundup (1/28/22)
It’s like a soap opera. As of yesterday, Politico reported that Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) is calling for Congress to pass the most popular portions of the $1.7 trillion Build Back Better (BBB) social spending package quickly, so that President Biden’s can tout their benefits during his State of the Union address on March 1st.…
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