Researching

I have spent many hours this last week researching workforce system legislation and programs over the past 10 years. I am updating Module 4 of the retooled WPDP History of Workforce Development studyguide. Sadly the last entry was the passage of WIA from 1998, so it's about time for an update. I started with reviewing the NASWA Bulletins from the last 10 years to see what's happened the last 10 years. That's been very time consuming because each bulletin is several pages long and reports on all proposed legislation and since I only want to include those programs that actually came about, it's a lot of reading and clicking. In the course of reviewing the material I had almost forgot about many things such as Y2K, the 2000 census, the recession in 2001 and the low employment (under 5%) in the mid 2000's. It was like a walk down memory lane. The common denominator...the workforce system was always there to help people. I hope to reflect that in this latest update to the WPDP.