To announce the release and availability of the Employment and Training Administration’s (ETA) Occasional Paper 2009-9:
Trends in the Structure of the Labor Market and Unemployment: Implications for U.S. Unemployment Insurance.

To inform the workforce investment system of the cancellation of this Employment and Training Administration (ETA) sponsored conference in 2009.

To announce the National Conference for UI Tax Administration that will be held in Savannah, Georgia, August 16 – 19, 2009.

To announce the release and availability of the Interim Report: Assisting Newcomers through Employment and Support Services: An Evaluation of the New Americans Centers Demonstration Project in Arkansas and Iowa prepared by The Urban Institute.

The purpose of this Training and Employment Notice (TEN) is to provide information to the workforce investment system to support the Department of Education’s roll out of the 2009-2010 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). The 2009-2010 FAFSA has been revised to include questions asking whether an individual or an individual’s spouse or parent is a dislocated worker, which will be used when determining need for financial aid. This notice will guide the workforce investment system and the state Unemployment Insurance (UI) agency in providing information to One-Stop Career Center customers and supporting financial aid administrators at public, private, and proprietary (for-profit) post-secondary institutions.

To inform State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) of the 2009 MAFO National Farmworker and the Monitor Advocate Training Sponsored by the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) Region IV Dallas Office being held in San Antonio, Texas, March 29-April 1, 2009.

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (The Recovery Act) was signed into law by President Obama on February 17, 2009. The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) will issue formal guidance to all states within 30 days of enactment for implementation of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) and Wagner-Peyser funding under the Recovery Act. This notice describes the initial plans ETA has developed for implementing these programs under the Recovery Act. Formal guidance is forthcoming.

To announce the release and availability of the Employment and Training Administration’s (ETA) Occasional Paper 2009-7: An Analysis of Unemployment Insurance Non-Filers: 2005 CPS Supplement Results.

To announce the release and availability of ETA Occasional Paper 2009-3: Evaluation of the Prisoner Re-Entry Initiative, Final Report

To announce the release and availability of the report titled An Evaluation of the Latino Coalition’s Reclamando Nuestro Futuro (Reclaiming our Future) Program.