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Supporting Successful Workforce Reentry for Justice-Involved Individuals
As Governors continue to address workforce shortages in nearly every sector of the economy, state workforce development policymakers and their ...
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State of the State – 2023
Governors of states, territories and commonwealths are outlining their priorities for 2023 in state of the state or commonwealth addresses, ...
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Governors Tout Bold Investments in Workforce Development During 2023 State of the State Addresses
A vast majority of Governors spent time during their State of the State addresses outlining their strategy for navigating 2023’s ...
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Governors Propose Bold Economic Investments in 2023 State of the State Addresses
In 2023 State of the State addresses, Governors outlined efforts to grow and diversify their states’ economies. In their 2023 ...
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State Education Trends for 2023
The top trends across the early childhood, K-12 and postsecondary education continuum from Governors’ 2023 state addresses. In 2022, 36 ...
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Governors Focus on Affordable Housing
In 2023 State of the State addresses, Governors outlined efforts to increase housing availability and improve affordability. The high cost ...
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Supporting Successful Workforce Reentry for Justice-Involved Individuals
As Governors continue to address workforce shortages in nearly every sector of the economy, state workforce development policymakers and their ...
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Hydrogen as an Energy Source
This brief is intended as a short introduction to hydrogen as an energy source. It will briefly discuss the various ...
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Securing States: Modernizing to Attract & Retain Cyber Talent
Just as cybersecurity is a shared responsibility, so is effective recruitment and retention of qualified state cybersecurity personnel. The consequences ...
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State Approaches to Equitable Distributed Energy Resource Deployment
Expanding access to clean, renewable distributed energy resources in an equitable manner is a priority of many Governors, and can ...
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Messaging in a Bottle: Evaluating Behavioral Insights to Build Pediatric COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence
Increasing COVID-19 vaccine uptake among children is a complex challenge that will likely require many different strategies from Governors. (Download) ...
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State Strategies to Address the Needs of Justice-Involved Youth Impacted by Collateral Consequences
This publication documents a series of learning calls, and a roundtable, held by NGA on collateral consequences for youth involved ...
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Expanding Child Care for Student Parents and Training Pathways for Early Childhood Educators
The NGA Center in partnership with Education Strategy Group held a virtual action lab focused on expanding access to and ...
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Webinar: State Support of Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity
In the wake of cyber attacks across the state, Wyoming created its Cyber Assistance Response Effort (CARE) team in 2019, ...
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Transmission Siting and Permitting: How Governor Leadership can Advance Projects
Electric transmission expansion can be important for Governors to realize their policy objectives. However, multiple siting, permitting, and regulatory challenges ...
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Workforce Development in the IIJA, CHIPS and IRA
This toolkit draws on insight from federal officials to outline the most pertinent programs and opportunities for state workforce development ...
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