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  • Advisory Committee Meeting members at table
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    Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee Meetings - Giving You the Power of Data
    Posted On: 6/19/2017

    The Federal Statistics Advisory Committee advises the Directors of the Economics and Statistics Administration's (ESAs) two statistical agencies, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) and the Census Bureau, and the Commissioner of the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) on statistical methodology and other technical matters related to the collection, tabulation, and analysis of federal economic statistics.

  • Communication channels and data sharing network
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    Department of Commerce Data Advisory Council Meetings on Economic Statistics
    Posted On: 6/19/2017

    The Economics and Statistics Administration (ESA) within the Department of Commerce (DOC) hosts regular Commerce Data Advisory Council (CDAC) meetings to improve the communication and data sharing between businesses and the Department.

  • New Quick-Lesson Podcast Series
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    LMI 101 Training Available as Quick Lesson Podcasts and Tutorials
    Posted On: 6/6/2017

    In these training materials, the U.S. Employment and Training Administration (ETA) and state labor market departments show you how to use workforce data to identify growing and demand occupations, determine which of them are jobs that you can target for certain services, and ascertain what preparatory education and training are needed to qualify for them.

  • Workers talking by their trucks
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    ETA Publishes its Lower Living Standard Income Level's Annual Update
    Posted On: 5/31/2017

    The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) has issued its annual update to the Lower Living Standard Income Levels (LLSIL). A Federal Register Notice (FRN) was published for the 2017 LLSIL used in Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) programs.

  • USA Geographic Map
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    Map the Hunger Games! Use BLS Data to Find the Districts of Panem
    Posted On: 2/21/2017

    The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has released an article that describes how to use the occupation, industry, and area detail in the Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) and the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) to find the Districts of Panem in the Hunger Games series.  The ACS is the premier dataset for state and local data The ACS is the premier dataset for state and local data

  • Data assets for workforce development
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    NASWA Labor Market Information Committee Reports Issued and Meetings Scheduled
    Posted On: 2/7/2017

    The National Association of Workforce Agencies (NASWA) schedules regular meetings for its Labor Market Information (LMI) Committee.  As a result of its work, the LMI Committee released one of its products - a report entitled, "Labor Market Information Shops as Assets for Workforce Development:  Lessons and Examples from Three States."

  • Agencies sharing data and looking over charts
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    Data Sharing Initiatives and Webinars - Sharing Data for Evaluation
    Posted On: 2/7/2017

    The State Data Sharing (SDS) Initiative, implemented by the Center for Regional Economic Competitiveness (CREC), has launched and hosted their first All States Meeting in September of 2016.  In November 2016, it held a webinar on the benefits, criteria and other considerations for sharing administrative data among states.

  • Teacher explaining data on a flip chart
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    LMI Institute and C2ER Webinars and Training
    Posted On: 2/7/2017

    The LMI Institute and Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER) host monthly webinars and training to help you learn about labor market information (LMI) tools and apply labor market data.

  • Man holding tablet with longitudinal data
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    The Census Bureau Seeks Comments on the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics
    Posted On: 2/2/2017

    The Census Bureau is seeking comments on its Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) information collection.  Comments are due on this collection for the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) data series by February 6, 2017.

  • a man and two women sitting around a table holding papers
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    The Workforce Information Advisory Council's Scheduled Meetings
    Posted On: 2/2/2017

    The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) mandated the creation of the Workforce Information Advisory Council (WIAC), an advisory committee charged with providing focused and specialized leadership on labor market information and the national workforce system.