The mission of the Employment and Training Administration is to contribute to the more efficient 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.
This grant is designed to support transformative efforts aimed at improving the quality and availability of jobs, particularly benefiting historically marginalized populations and facing barriers to employment in good jobs. The focus is on expanding job quality within the care, climate resiliency, and clean energy transition, and hospitality sectors through industry-led, worker-centered sector strategies and labor-management partnerships. These grants aim to foster equity, job quality, and worker voice, focusing on training models for family-supporting jobs. High-quality jobs are defined as those offering family-sustaining wages and benefits, predictable hours, transparent hiring practices, advancement opportunities, prioritizing worker health and safety, and including worker voice. The program will fund both short-term capacity-building planning grants and longer-term implementation grants.