To announce the release and availability of two evaluation reports and an issue brief synthesizing impact findings from the YPD, and associated public use data files.

To announce the release and availability of the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) Protocol for Implementing Priority of Service Regulations for Veterans and Eligible Spouses to assist and support those agencies and other grantees that receive funds from the Department to operate qualified job training programs in the implementation of Priority of Service for Veterans and Eligible Spouses.

To assist State Workforce Agencies or agencies designated by Governors as "Cooperating State Agencies" (also jointly referred to as "states") by specifying the FY 2019 Second Distribution of TaOA funding amounts to states; describing the formula methodology the Department of Labor (Department) used to calculate these amounts; and providing the process for states to request TAA Program reserve funds for TaOA. TaOA includes training, job search allowances, relocation allowances, employment and case management services, and related state administration.

To announce the implementation of an online electronic filing application for petitions for TAA.

To provide guidance on real property issues, including using grant funds for capital expenditures and other real property costs, depreciation, maintaining insurance, handling idle facilities and idle facility capacity, retaining records, disposing of real property acquired with Employment and Training Administration (ETA) grant funds, renting real property, and using and disposing of State Workforce Agency (SWA) real property that has Federal (Department of Labor) equity or Reed Act equity.

To inform all Employment and Training (ETA) workforce system agencies of additional Office of Management and Budget (OMB) reporting requirements under the FFATA effective October 1, 2010.

To announce the release and availability of the final report from the evaluation of the Jobs Innovation and Accelerator Challenge Grants (JIAC).

To announce and solicit nominations for the 2019 Federal-State UC Legislative Enhanced Seminar Series.

To encourage states to establish parameters for funding entrepreneurial and self-employment training under Title I of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA), which authorizes the provision of entrepreneurial training to adult and dislocated workers, and authorizes entrepreneurial work experiences for youth.

This guidance clarifies the governance-related activities that States must complete by July 1, 2015, which is the beginning of Program Year 2015, in order to ensure an orderly transition to the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA). Additionally, this guidance summarizes other governance-related activities that the Department encourages States to complete as soon as possible, but are not required by July 1, 2015.