National Apprenticeship Week 2024: 10 Years of Celebrating Opportunity, Security and Dignity

Office of Disability Employment Policy
Registered apprenticeship is a superhighway to jobs, opportunity and economic stability. Long associated with the skilled trades, apprenticeship is becoming more commonplace in other growth industries like health care and IT.

NEW DATA: Childcare costs remain an almost prohibitive expense

Georgia Poyatzis, Gretchen Livingston
We updated our National Database of Childcare Prices with data from 2019-2022 and found that U.S. families spend between 8.9% and 16.0% of their median income on full-day care for just one child.

Improving workers’ safety and health in the South

Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Dorinda Hughes, who leads OSHA’s new Birmingham region, is focusing on worker safety and health for the growing Southern workforce while fostering collaboration and fairness.

A for modernization: Labor Department excels on IT scorecard

Lisa Glufling
Twice a year, Congress releases a scorecard grading the 24 largest federal agencies on their IT strategies. We received an overall "A" on the latest report card, improving from a "B."

Second chances and new beginnings for two veterans