The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) is part of the
U.S. Department of Labor
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. Its mission is to provide training,
employment
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, 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.
President
Joe Biden
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nominated
labor
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* Labour (human activity), or work
** Manual labour, physical work
** Wage labour, a socioeconomic relationship between a worker and an employer
** Organized labour and the labour ...
lawyer
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and
Florida
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politician José Javier Rodríguez for the position of Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training, the agency's leader, on June 2, 2021; he was confirmed by the
Senate
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on March 21, 2024.
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
* Job Corps
* Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker Job Training Program
* National Emergency Grants
* One-Stop Career Centers
* Occupational Information Network (
The agency was founded in 1954 as the Manpower Administration. It was given its present name in 1975.
The most recent confirmed Assistant Secretary is John Pallasch, who was sworn in on July 29, 2019. He resigned on January 20, 2021. Suzan Levine was named as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary by the incoming Biden administration on January 28, 2021, and served as the Acting Assistant Secretary.
See also
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Title 20 of the Code of Federal Regulations
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History
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