Workforce Development Measures Advance Through House Committee

The House Committee on Education and the Workforce advanced legislation to boost the nation’s workforce development system in a rare bipartisan move.

The committee voted 44-1 Tuesday to reauthorize the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, the 2014 law that governs the federal job training system. Lawmakers also approved, on a 37-8 vote, a bill to expand Pell Grant eligibility to short-term work programs, which lawmakers say would dramatically increase access for people of lower income.

The Stronger Workforce for America Act (H.R. 6655), which reauthorizes WIOA, would direct more program funding toward actual job training, overhaul the eligibility ...