Recent law promotes training for skilled construction workers

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Abstract: The signing into law of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) this past July didn’t garner many headlines. But the act’s potential impact on the construction industry is indeed newsworthy, for the act represents a chance to do something about the skilled labor shortage that’s been plaguing contractors for years. This article looks at the law’s attempt to consolidate and enhance a wide variety of federally run job-training programs.