Check out the UNITE-LA National Strategic Partnerships team’s June edition of News to Know, the monthly newsletter featuring national workforce and education trends and regional chamber initiatives.

On the national stage, read more about: a WIOA-funded workforce program that integrates wraparound services and financial assistance, rural-serving community colleges developing bachelor’s programs, manufacturing as an engine for regional economic development and ongoing federal legislation impacting Pell funding. Also read about the innovative chamber initiatives across the country: celebrating career technical education students in North Carolina with signing days, county workforce needs in rural Pennsylvania, Hawaii’s education and workforce strategies and a rural workforce chamber partnership in Colorado. Lastly, listen to a podcast featuring two episodes about four chambers of commerce across the country developing apprenticeship programs!