Employment and Training Administration

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The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) is part of the U.S. Department of Labor. Its mission is to provide training, employment, labor market information, and income maintenance services. ETA administers federal government job training and worker dislocation programs, federal grants to states for public employment service programs, and unemployment insurance benefits. These services are primarily provided through state and local workforce development systems.

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Programs administered

Career Advancement Accounts
Community-Based Job Training Grants
Disaster Unemployment Assistance
Federal Bonding Program
Foreign Labor Certification
High Growth Job Training Grants
Indian and Native American Job Training Program
Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker Job Training Program
National Emergency Grants
One-Stop Career Centers
Occupational Information Network (Holland Codes)
Registered Apprenticeship
Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP)
Trade Adjustment Assistance
Unemployment Insurance
Wagner-Peyser Act Programs
Work Opportunity Tax Credit
Workforce Innovation in Regional Economic Development (WIRED)
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act Adult Job Training Programs
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act Dislocated Worker Programs
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act Youth Job Training Programs

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History

The agency was at first called the Manpower Administration when it was founded in 1954. It was given its present name in 1975.

The most recent confirmed Assistant Secretary was Portia Wu, until January 2017. The top position has remained vacant since then, and the acting head of the agency is a civil servant, Byron Zuidema.