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Officials pitch statewide workforce ‘data trust’ and early participation in federal PSEO coalition
Summary
State officials told the Economic Development, Housing & General Affairs committee that a December study recommends exploring a centralized workforce data trust and using no‑cost multistate tools (including the Census-led PSEO coalition) while ADS builds a statewide 'data lakehouse' to improve cross-agency workforce analytics.
At a committee hearing, Simone Haskell, executive director of the Office of Corporate Strategy and Development, presented a December study that recommends exploring a statewide workforce 'data trust' to break agency data silos and strengthen long‑term workforce decision‑making.
"We need more people, we need more housing, we need more businesses," Haskell said, arguing a shared repository could improve accountability and help evaluate program impact across state government and community partners. The report does not recommend immediate adoption of a single state-run trust; it instead urges the legislature and agencies to evaluate alternative partnerships and multistate collaboratives while the Agency of Digital Services (ADS) builds internal capacity.
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