To provide an updated directory of Federal civilian and military agencies that have requested detailed benefit payment data, which supports the Department of Labor’s quarterly unemployment compensation billings.

To announce the release and availability of the ETA Occasional Paper 2010-08: Growing America Through Entrepreneurship: Final Evaluation of Project GATE

To request Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Section 166 grantees to submit nominations for consideration by Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis, for appointment to fill expiring terms of membership on the Native American Employment and Training Council (Council).

To announce upcoming activities and events to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the unemployment insurance (UI) program, and to announce the UI Hall of Fame and UI Innovation Awards.

To announce the National Rapid Response Initiative, a comprehensive, collaborative effort to promote consistent, high quality, timely and innovative responses to economic transition across the country. Through this Initiative, the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) will collaborate with state and local Rapid Response practitioners and partners to assess the current system capacity, identify areas for improvement, and provide training and technical assistance to support the system in addressing the identified needs.

To provide checklists of all currently active ETA Advisories as well as checklists of all ETA Advisories rescinded/cancelled since the previously issued checklists.

To announce the release and availability of an ETA quantitative evaluation report: Use of One-Stops by Social Security Disability Beneficiaries in Four States Implementing Disability Program Navigator (DPN) Initiatives.

To announce a partnership between the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) encouraging collaborations between the workforce investment system and public libraries aimed at improving the quality and quantity of employment and training services to job seekers and unemployed individuals.

To provide information to the workforce investment system on the approximate schedule for the next YouthBuild competition.

The purpose of this Training and Employment Notice (TEN) is to (1) inform the public workforce system about the pilot project to test a regression-based method for performance target setting at the national, state, and local Workforce Investment Board (WIB) levels for Workforce Investment Act (WIA) title I programs and (2) ask states to submit requests to participate in the pilot and to participate in the refinement of the model to help inform the full implementation.