Congresssional Education and Workforce Committee (The Need for Comprehensive Job Retraining / Part 1 & 2 Infographic)

Education and the Workforce Committee

February 25, 2013 INFOGRAPHIC: The Need for Comprehensive Job Training ReformPart 1: A Confusing Maze of Programs President Obama has said the nation’s workforce development system is a “maze of confusing training programs.” But words alone can’t describe how convoluted the system has become – the following infographic reveals the true size of the bureaucracy standing between workers and the skills they need to find a job: In total, the federal government administers more than 50 different programs across nine separate agencies. Taxpayer dollars are spent supporting a massive bureaucracy instead of helping workers. House Education and the Workforce Committee Republicans have released commonsense reforms that will streamline the system, shifting the focus away from ineffective programs and back to workers. To learn more about this important effort, stay tuned for Part 2. NOTE: Tomorrow at 10 a.m. ET, the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training will hold ahearing entitled "Putting America Back to Work: Reforming the Nation's Workforce Investment System." The hearing will examine the SKILLS Act and the urgent need to fix the broken job training system. # # # February 25, 2013 INFOGRAPHIC: The Need for Comprehensive Job Training ReformPart 2: Creating a Worker-Friendly Job Training System An infographic released earlier today revealed the confusing state of the nation’s workforce training system. The House Education and the Workforce Committee is taking action to provide taxpayers, employers, and workers with a more effective workforce development system. The Supporting Knowledge and Investing in Lifelong Skills (SKILLS) Act (H.R. 803) eliminates and streamlines dozens of ineffective and duplicative programs, and creates a flexible Workforce Investment Fund. This new fund will provide state and local leaders an efficient resource to deliver the support their workers need. Instead of a system focused on programs and bureaucracy, the SKILLS Act delivers a dynamic network of employment support that will put workers and job seekers first: Last year, President Obama said it was "time to turn our unemployment system into a reemployment system." That is precisely what the SKILLS Act will do. A hearing scheduled for tomorrow in the Higher Education and Workforce Training Subcommittee will discuss the need for reform and the commonsense approach reflected in the SKILLS Act. To learn more about the hearing, click here. To learn more about the SKILLS Act, click here. To see Part 1 in this series, click here.                                      # # #