DOL-09/08/07-2B: WIA Dislocated Worker Program

Increase the employment, retention, and earnings of individuals registered under the Workforce Investment Act Dislocated Worker program.

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Strategies: * Assist laid-off workers to become reemployed quickly and preferably to enhance their employability and earnings by increasing occupational skills. * Provide assistance to localities that suffer plant closings, mass layoffs or job losses due to natural disasters and military base realignment and closures. * Leverage additional, non-federal resources in order to increase the quality and variety of assistance.

Stakeholder(s):

• WIA Dislocated Worker Program: ETA Workforce Investment Act Dislocated Worker program - WIA Dislocated Worker funds are formula grants to the States. The Department allocates 80 percent of the funds to the States; the Secretary may use the remaining 20 percent for discretionary activities specified in the Workforce Investment Act.
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• States
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• Secretary of the Department of Labor
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