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Workforce Development

WIOA (Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act)

https://dwd.wisconsin.gov/wioa/

WIOA is legislation designed to:

  • strengthen and improve our nation's public workforce system
  • get Americans, including youth and those with significant barriers to employment, into high-quality jobs and careers
  • help employers hire and retain skilled workers

View the full purpose of WIOA here: https://dwd.wisconsin.gov/wioa/pdf/fs_purposes.pdf

The four titles in WIOA are:

  • Title I – Workforce Development Activities
  • Title II – Adult Education and Literacy
  • Title III – Wagner-Peyser Act
  • Title IV – Vocational Rehabilitation

Wisconsin Literacy members fall under Title II.

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