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2022 was an impactful year for the Department of Labor’s Office of the Chief Information Officer. As American workers faced complexities bought on by a global pandemic, we continued to build on the momentum from previous years and innovate IT solutions to support the Department of Labor’s mission. Here are a few highlights: Our teams worked hard to raise the

Human trafficking continues to be a devastating reality across the globe – and in the United States. In fact, workers who were victims of human trafficking produce some of the goods and services we enjoy every day, concealed by fraud, illegal enterprise and intimidation. The National Human Trafficking Hotline received 10,359 reports of trafficking situations in 2021, involving an estimated

Editor’s note: In our “I Am DOL” series, we’re highlighting employees who work in a wide range of roles at the Department of Labor but who all share a passion for public service. Stay tuned for more stories, and explore current job openings at the department today. Riquita Quaterman, supervisor of the Quality Assurance Unit in the Employee Benefits Security

Working to increase job quality is central to the U.S. Department of Labor’s mission, and we have long focused on administering and leveraging federal dollars to create good jobs. For example, the department’s Employment Training Administration, Women’s Bureau and Veterans’ Employment and Training Service all operate grant programs that fund projects supporting equitable workforce development pathways into good jobs. The

As part of the Good Jobs Initiative, the U.S. Department of Labor helps other federal agencies improve equity and job quality through formal partnerships. And through these partnerships, we’ve learned that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to creating equitable pathways to good jobs. That’s because every agency has its own unique advantages to incentivizing better jobs and equitable workforce

It’s a fact that women, people of color and individuals with disabilities are vastly underrepresented in critical infrastructure fields such as manufacturing and construction. Achieving parity in these and other fields requires intentional investments and partnerships. Building off of what we’ve learned from our work to incorporate diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility into our programs and outreach, the U.S. Department of

Data is at the center of the U.S. Department of Labor’s good jobs strategy. We work with federal partner agencies to ensure that workforce data is collected and made public whenever possible. For example, we partnered with the Department of Commerce to craft a requirement for subgrantees of its Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program to report the demographic composition

The Biden-Harris administration has made unprecedented levels of investment in American infrastructure through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, and the CHIPS and Science Act. As the U.S. Department of Labor works with other federal agencies to implement these investments, we have a unique opportunity and responsibility to achieve the equity outcomes the administration outlined in Executive Order 13985, “Advancing Racial Equity

The entrance to the Sago Coal Mine. Seventeen years ago, two separate mine disasters helped shape new rules for mining and keep miners safer. A few current Mine Safety and Health Administration employees were working with MSHA on rescue efforts at that time and recall that work and how it shaped the Mine Improvement and New Emergency Response (MINER) Act.

In December, the U.S. economy added 223,000 jobs, bringing the 3-month moving average to 247,000. The unemployment rate fell to 3.5%, near the over 50-year low first reached earlier in the year. The sectors with the largest payroll gains in December were leisure and hospitality (+67,000), education and health care (+78,000), and construction (+28,000). Monthly job growth has decelerated since