Employment and Training Administration
Agency overview | |
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Formed | 2014 |
Jurisdiction | Federal government of the United States |
Headquarters | Washington, D.C. |
Employees | 1,000 |
Agency executive | Jane Oates[1] |
Website | www.dol.gov/eta |
The mission of the Employment and Training Administration (ETA), as part of the U.S. Department of Labor, is to contribute to the more efficient and effective functioning of the U.S. labor market by providing high quality job training, employment, labor market information, and income maintenance services primarily through State and local workforce development systems. 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.
The Employment and Training Administration was headed by Jane Oates, confirmed as Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training on June 19, 2009 until June 2012.
Programs administered by the Employment and Training Administration
- Career Advancement Accounts,as a man
- 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,
- O*Net OnLine: Interests (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 Investment Act Adult Job Training Programs,
- Workforce Investment Act Dislocated Worker Programs, and
- Workforce Investment Act Youth Job Training Programs
See also
References
- ↑ http://www.doleta.gov/etainfo/Asst_Sec_Jane_Oates.cfm "Jane Oates, Assistant Secretary for ETA, Dept. of Labor