The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) announces the release and availability of four reports on the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program:

• Initial Implementation of the Trade Act of 2002;
• Assessment, Case Management, and Post-Training Assistance for TAA Participants;
• Linkages between TAA, One-Stop Career Center Partners, and Economic Development Agencies; and
• Rapid Response and TAA.

To ensure that states are aware that: 1) the social security survivors and old age retirement annuities and the Federal civilian pensions annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) will increase for calendar year 2019 and 2) COLA information is located on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) website.

To announce the release and availability of ETA Occasional Paper: The Power of Partnership: American Regions Collaborating for Economic Competitiveness, 2009 Generation I WIRED Interim Evaluation Report

The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) is providing a renewed form ETA 9178 for State Workforce Agencies and other applicable grant recipients to document the quarterly progress toward completing their supplemental grant activities. This form is renewed for grantee quarterly reporting through August 31, 2021.

To clarify the definition of “school dropout” as it pertains to YouthBuild program participants under the Workforce Investment Act (WIA)

This guidance provides information to States and grantees of the U.S. Departments of Labor (DOL) and Education (ED) (collectively "the Departments") on the performance accountability system requirements set forth in section 116 of WIOA. Specifically, this guidance provides information about the guidelines States must use in developing procedures for ensuring the data submitted are valid and reliable.

To provide State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) with a revised version of ET Handbook 336, 18th Edition, Change 2

This guidance communicates the requirements and the process for states to request a waiver of WIOA Title I or the Wagner-Peyser Act, and to provide information regarding available resources for developing waiver requests.

To announce the release and availability of ETA Occasional Paper 2009-20: Characteristics of the Community-Based Job Training Grants: Interim Report

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) 2019.