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.
See also
- Title 20 of the Code of Federal Regulations
- Job Corps
- United States Employment Service
References
External links
- Official website
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