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Labor & Workforce Development outlines FY26 workforce investments; seeks to expand YouthWorks, CTI and apprenticeship capacity
Summary
Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development presented the administration’s FY26 proposal emphasizing youth employment, career technical training, registered apprenticeship expansion and continued DUA modernization to address customer service and claims backlogs.
The Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development told the Joint Committee on Ways and Means in Gloucester that the Healy‑Driscoll FY26 budget proposes $112,900,000 in state funding for LWD and associated departments, supplemented by federal funds for core programs.
Secretary Lauren Jones said the administration’s workforce strategy centers on four pillars — reducing barriers to employment, increasing labor market participation, developing career training in key industries, and fostering equitable regional opportunity — and tied several FY26 line items to those pillars.
Highlights the secretary identified include a proposed $15,700,000 for YouthWorks to provide subsidized and experiential summer and…
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