To issue the revised federal poverty guidelines for the Senior Community Service Employment Program.

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.

The purpose of this guidance is to announce receipt of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval of the reporting and administrative forms for the consolidated WOTC Program and transmit the newly revised forms and on-line reporting instructions.

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 the availability of report titled Ready4Work: Final Research 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.

To advise states of an amendment to Federal unemployment compensation (UC) law that prohibits the reduction of UC due to nontaxable pension rollover distributions.

To provide checklists of all currently active ETA Advisories as well as checklists of all ETA Advisories rescinded/cancelled since the previously issued checklists.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 advise State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) of their Foreign Labor Certification (FLC) grant allocations for the last 65 days of the FY 2009 Continuing Resolution (CR) in effect October 1, 2008, through March 6, 2009.

To inform states of the guidelines for negotiating Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Title IB performance and customer satisfaction goals and performance levels for the Wagner-Peyser Act funded activities for Program Year (PY) 2009, including the option to extend PY 2008 negotiated goals for PY 2009. These performance goals, once they are agreed upon between the state and the Employment and Training Administration (ETA), will be incorporated into the State’s Strategic Plan for the WIA and Wagner-Peyser Act.