To announce the release and the availability of report titled Literature Review: Intermediaries and FBCOs Working Together.

To inform state workforce agencies that 100 percent reimbursement for unemployment insurance (UI) above-base administrative expenses is provided for under the FY 2009 continuing resolution (CR) and that states may request a portion of their first quarter FY 2009 above-base funds in advance of the end of the quarter.

To announce the availability of online RJM training.

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

The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) announces the release and availability of a report titled: Flexible Learning Options for Adult Students.

The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) announces the release and availability of a report entitled: Responses to Personal Reemployment Accounts (PRAs): Findings From the Demonstration States.

To inform the workforce investment system of the launch of “Transforming Partnerships: How to Apply the U.S. Department of Labor's Equal Treatment and Religion-Related Regulations to Public-Private Partnerships,” an online training course. This course provides a basic framework for understanding the Faith-Based and Community Initiative and its implementation at the U.S. Department of Labor (Department or DOL). Further, this course provides in-depth training on the equal treatment and religion-related regulations; specifically the new equal treatment regulations at 29 C.F.R. Part 2, Subpart D, and the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) nondiscrimination and programmatic regulations at 29 C.F.R. 37.6(f), 20 C.F.R. 667.266 and 667.275, as well as case law; an understanding of which is crucial to ensure proper implementation of these regulations.

The U.S. Senate Designated the Week of September 8, 2008 as National Direct Support Professionals Recognition Week (S. Res. 613) to honor this important group of workers. This resolution is an opportunity to learn more about the work of direct support professionals (DSPs) in your community.

To remind the workforce investment system of the performance reporting requirements and associated timelines for submitting data validation results for the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) title IB programs; the Wagner-Peyser Employment Service; activities authorized under chapter 41 of title 38 United States Code (Local Veterans’ Employment Representative and Disabled Veterans' Outreach Program); the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program; and the National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP).

To announce the availability of a Guide and four "How-To" Manuals, entitled as a set Taking Care of Business, on creating and sustaining employer-based workforce development intermediaries and developing successful strategies that support transformation of the workforce system.