To provide guidance to state workforce agencies (SWAs) on reporting of postage, TRA, and SAVE administrative expenditures on the RJM.

To ensure State Workforce Agencies are aware of the locality-based salary rates for certain Federal civilian employees.

To transmit the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly DUA amounts for all major disasters declared during the second quarter of fiscal year (FY) 2008

To ensure State Workforce Agencies are aware of the Federal military retired pay annual cost of living adjustment (COLA) and to provide the Department of Defense Web site where the COLA information is located.

The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) is pleased to announce the commencement of a non-experimental net impact evaluation of the formula programs established under title I of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA). ETA has contracted with IMPAQ International, LLC (IMPAQ), of Columbia, Maryland to conduct the evaluation. The evaluation will focus on the Adult and Dislocated Worker formula programs. This evaluation will utilize a rigorous, non-experimental design to assess the impact of core and intensive services, and the incremental impact of WIA training on participant outcomes. As such, the evaluation will compare outcomes of WIA participants to the outcomes of similar individuals drawn from a comparison group. This 12-month project will utilize existing and newly-acquired administrative data from a representative sample of states. Throughout the life of the research effort, state workforce agencies, partners, and stakeholders will receive continuing updates on the study’s progress.

To advise State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) of their Alien Labor Certification (ALC) grant allocations under the FY 2008 Continuing Resolution (CR) in effect December 15, 2007, through December 21, 2007.

This guidance notice is intended to encourage the effective use of assessment instruments within the workforce investment system to promote efficient investment in talent development that will drive regional economic competitiveness; provide guidance to the workforce investment system and its partners on effective use of assessment instruments; and release and transmit a new technical assistance resource, Testing and Assessment: A Guide to Good Practices for Workforce Investment Professionals (the Guide). This is the third in a series of Testing and Assessment Guides (see Section 2. References), which was initiated based on requests from workforce investment officials. This guidance notice and the attached new technical assistance guide are designed to support the workforce investment system in promoting talent development by ensuring that individuals served are able to make well-informed education and career choices.

The purpose of this Training and Employment Notice (TEN) is to provide information on the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) proposed Ticket to Work Program regulations.

The purpose of this Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) is to highlight workforce investment activities allowable under WIA in support of talent development strategies that drive state and regional economic growth, and to specifically provide guidance on the interpretation of sections of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 that reference allowable activities and prohibitions related to economic development.

To remind the workforce investment system of the performance reporting deadlines 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).