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Celebrate the 10th anniversary of National Apprenticeship Week! This year, we’re celebrating the 10th annual National Apprenticeship Week! This weeklong celebration helps us showcase the value of Registered Apprenticeship in developing a highly skilled workforce that meets industry needs, creating pathways for career seekers to catapult into good jobs, advancing racial and gender equity, and strengthening our economy. Since National

A for modernization: Labor Department excels on IT scorecard Technology is shaping the future of work, and the Department of Labor is harnessing IT innovation to improve the lives of America’s workers and promote economic growth. Our efforts have been recognized with top marks on the latest IT scorecard from Congress. How did we score? The Department of Labor

Advancing Access to Good Jobs for All Above, a version of the 2024 National Disability Employment Awareness Month poster. The Biden-Harris administration is strengthening our nation’s infrastructure on multiple levels. It’s modernizing our airports, roads and bridges and bringing high-speed internet and reliable power to people across the U.S. It’s also transforming lives and livelihoods by generating millions of good

We analyzed 5 years’ worth of childcare prices. Here’s what we found. Parents who have the feeling that child care gets more expensive every year aren’t imagining it. A new analysis of the Women’s Bureau’sNational Database of Childcare Prices (NDCP) shows that between 2013 and 2018, across 37 states,prices rose in the majority of counties.High-population counties and counties with large

Celebrating the anniversary of the Rehabilitation Act through self-identification Anupa Geevarghese Today, we celebrate the anniversary of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, a significant milestone in ensuring people with disabilities have access to good jobs. The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) enforces Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act. Section 503 prohibits federal contractors and subcontractors from discriminating against

Working together to prevent suicide through support, awareness and hope For this National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, the Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) wants you to know that help is available. First, if you or someone you know is in crisis, call 9-8-8. This free and confidential suicide and mental crisis lifeline is available 24 hours a day, 7 days

Older women’s wealth: Still coming up short New research from the Women’s Bureau shines a spotlight on the vast gender and racial gaps in wealth among people approaching or at retirement age in the U.S. Among people who are 50 or older, Black and Hispanic women have less than one-fifth the wealth of comparable white non-Hispanic men (16% and 18%,

Labor-management cooperation in Germany A Mercedes-Benz passenger car factory in Bremen, Germany. In a closely contested election in May of 2024, the approximately 5,000 workers at a Mercedes-Benz plant in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, voted against certifying the United Auto Workers of America (UAW) as their bargaining agent. The UAW’s narrow defeat followed its recently successful certification election for recognition at a

Employment Supports Recovery: How Work Helps Taryn’s headshot. For many people work is about purpose through meaningful contributions in good jobs. For people in recovery from substance use disorder, such purpose can be a powerful driver of sustained sobriety. Every day, people in recovery contribute to our workforce in countless ways. Workers in recovery come from a variety of backgrounds