Background
The Coalition advocates for a number of workforce development initiatives on the city, state, and federal level.
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Our Position
February 8, 2008
Testimony Before the NYS Assembly Committee on Higher Education - Perspectives on the Higher Education Commission's Preliminary Report
January 31, 2008
Testimony Before the NYC Council Committee on Small Business - Measuring the Success of Workforce Development Programs
January 2007
Keeping New York State Competitive and Creating Opportunity for All New Yorkers: A Workforce Development Agenda for Governor Spitzer
October 2006
New York City Needs a Comprehensive Workforce Development Agenda
Describes why workforce development is important and recommends ways New York City can improve its workforce development system.
June 1, 2005
Comments Regarding the NYC Workforce Investment Board's Draft Three-Year Local Plan
Recommendations include creating affiliate One Stops and other alternatives to "scale up" services; develop targeted strategies to serve people with employment barriers; identify additional resources to pay for employment, training and job readiness services; focus on youth; and others.
February 11, 2004
Testimony Before the NYS Senate Finance/Assembly Ways and Means Committees — SFY 2004-2005 Human Services Budget
Recommendations include adequately funding the Governor's $8.5 million "best practice" initiative for long-term TANF recipients; restoration of the InVEST, YEETP and Displaced Homemaker programs; and others.
September 15, 2003
Testimony to Economic Development and Youth Services Committees, New York City Council — A Comprehensive Workforce and Economic Development Strategy for New York City
Recommendations include ensuring that workforce development is linked to economic development, developing an ongoing determination of the City's labor market needs, creating a dense network of One Stop centers, identifying funding sources above the City's federal WIA allocation and more.
August 2003
Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Reauthorization Recommendations
Recommendations include ensuring adequate funding for the workforce development system; that training and education are accessible so that job seekers can meet the needs of employers; that youth are adequately served; and more.
June 13, 2003
Testimony to General Welfare Committee, New York City Council — Transition of DOE Programs to DSBS
Recommendations for making the transition of WIA adult programs from DOE to DSBS as seamless as possible, and working with the new agency to create an effective workforce development system for both job seekers and employers.
March 3, 2003
Testimony Before the NYS Senate Finance/Assembly Ways and Means Committees — SFY 2003-2004 Human Services Budget
Recommendations include restoration of the Wage Subsidy and InVEST employment and training programs that are cut by nearly $44 million in the Governor's proposed executive budget.
June 30, 2002
Comments on Workforce Investment Act Reauthorization — Submitted to U.S. DOL, Employment and Training Administration
Recommendations include increasing local flexibility to implement the law, modifying performance measures and streamlining reporting requirements, and easing income eligibility for youth services.
March 2002
New York City Needs a Workforce Development Policy
Workforce development blueprint calling on the City of New York to link workforce development to economic development, include welfare recipients in a comprehensive workforce development strategy, promote training for good jobs, and expend available WIA and TANF funds for needed employment, training and education services.
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Resources
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NEWS
October 2006
Spitzer Responds to NYCETC Gubernatorial Candidate Questionnaire on Workforce Development Issues
Prior to the November 2006 election, gubernatorial candidate Eliot Spitzer answered a NYCETC questionnaire saying that New York State must "start developing an integrated workforce development system that is strategic, demand-driven and accountable" and that "we must align NY's education and workforce systems with its economic development system to increase efficiency, accountability and strategic direction." Download the full questionnaire and read more about what Spitzer says he will do for workforce development in New York.
January 24, 2006
Senator Schumer Speaks About the Need for Job Training at Association for a Better New York
NYS Senator Charles Schumer spoke to ABNY about the need to provide job opportunities for unemployed African American men, and argued that we should support job training programs that have been proven effective. NYCETC organized the tour of its member STRIVE, that Schumer references. Click here to read his speech.
August 30, 2005
Poverty Rate Rises in New York City, Alone Among Big Cities
— Crain's NY Business
July 14, 2005
Job-Training Programs Hailed by Bush Squeezed in 2006 Budget
— Bloomberg News
July/August 2005
Beyond Bloomberg's Stadium Infatuation
An Economic Development Plan for the Boroughs
— City Limits
June 30, 2005
City's Growth Outpaces Nation's for First Time Since 2001
— NY Newsday
May 29, 2005
For Women in Need, a Way to Something Better
The Grace Institute, a Coalition member and nonprofit, 108-year-old school in Manhattan, provides tuition-free training in skilled office work to low-income women who are unemployed or have poorly paying or dead-end jobs.
— NY Times
May 13, 2005
$10 Million Jobs Program Finally Set to Go
— NY Daily News
March 28, 2005
Robbing Pedro to Pay Paul — Changes to welfare legislation could lead to loss of Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) for immigrant families
— City Limits
February 14, 2005
Vocational Education
— Gotham Gazette
February 7, 2005
Facing Unemployment
— Gotham Gazette
January 20, 2005
State Joblessness Rises, While Employment Matches National Rate
— Newsday
January 19, 2005
Proficiency in English Decreases Over a Decade
— NY Times
January 15, 2005
Bush's Budget Will Seek Modest Rise in Pell Grants
— NY Times
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