To ensure states are aware of the locality-based salary rates for certain Federal civilian employees.

To strongly encourage states to expend their allotment from the $500 million special distribution under the Recovery Act as quickly as feasible and prudent in accordance with the intent of the Recovery Act to preserve and create jobs and promote economic recovery.

To ensure states are aware that:
1) the social security survivors and old age retirement annuities and the Federal civilian pensions annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) will increase for calendar year 2012, and
2) COLA information may be found on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Web site.

1) To provide successful strategies to the public workforce system for connecting individuals with transportation to jobs and training, and
2) to help businesses access a diverse workforce.

To transmit the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly DUA amounts for all major disasters declared during the second quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2012.

To advise states of the latest extension of the Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC08) program and temporary Extended Benefit (EB) provisions.

To announce the release and availability of ETA Occasional Paper: Implementation and Early Training Outcomes of the High Growth Job Training Initiative (HGJTI): Final Report.

To announce the release and availability of the ETA Occasional Paper, Evaluation of the Technology-Based Learning Grants Final Report, prepared by Social Policy Research (SPR) Associates.

To provide the state workforce agencies (SWAs) clarification on the use of documents used to verify eligibility for WOTC, in order to support the uninterrupted processing of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act) Disconnected Youth related eligible certification requests.

To advise states of the statutory amendments related to UC program integrity included in the TAAEA (Public Law (Pub. L.) 112-40), enacted on October 21, 2011.