by luke | May 12, 2025 | Housing Strategies
Heads up Economic Development experts! We have yet another acronym to add to the vegetable soup. YIGBY – Yes, in God’s Backyard – is popping up in conversations across the country as communities look to the original carpenter himself to help boost housing...
by luke | Mar 8, 2024 | Other, WIOA Strategic Planning, Workforce Development
Last year in December, the House Education and Workforce Committee voted to advance the A Stronger Workforce for America Act (H.R. 6655) to the House floor. The bill seeks to comprehensively reauthorize the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) with...
by luke | Mar 7, 2024 | Career Pathways, CPL and Micro-Credentialing Support, Headlines, Workforce Development
The new policy guidance encourages the use and expansion of CPL across the state (INDIANAPOLIS) – The Indiana Commission for Higher Education announced today Indiana’s first statewide policy guidance for credit for prior learning (CPL). The state CPL model policy...
by luke | Feb 20, 2024 | Economic Development, Economic Development Implementation Support, Other, Workforce Development
Mayor Tom DeBaun improved Shelbyville’s economic outcomes by elevating educational attainment. INDIANAPOLIS (February 19, 2024)– In three terms as Mayor of Shelbyville, Ind., Tom DeBaun helped establish an adult high school so more residents could earn diplomas,...
by luke | Feb 12, 2024 | Career Pathways, Economic Development, Other, Workforce Development
When Tom Miller started TPMA on February 12, 1989, workforce development played an important role in bolstering economic growth. More than three decades later, the U.S.’ transition to a predominantly knowledge- and skills-based economy has catapulted workforce’s role...
