New Harvard report clearly shows challenges with current public workforce system

March 8, 2023

A new report from Harvard’s Project on Workforce clearly shows some of the ways in which the current public sector workforce development system under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) is failing learners across the country. The report shows that the median WIOA trainee, 9 months after completing a WIOA-funded training program for adult or dislocated workers, earns less than the median U.S. high school dropout. The report also shows that WIOA outcomes are on average worse for women and people of color, and has a host of insights about how the current system works (and, too often, doesn’t). Give it a read!