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Governors Prioritizing Postsecondary Strategies: Multiple Pathways Highlighted in 2025 State and Territory Addresses
Governors across the country made clear that postsecondary education remains central to their policy agendas in their 2025 State and Territory addresses—including State of the State, Inaugural, and Budget speeches ...
Membership Monthly – April 2025
Updates from the NGA Membership Team for April 2025. For more about the programs below and a list of upcoming events please email NGA at: membership@nga.org. ABOVE: Virginia Governor Glenn ...
Workforce Investments for A Robust Health Ecosystem
To help commemorate National Public Health Week 2025, this publication is part of an NGA series that explores policies, programs and considerations to improve population health. Addressing health needs through ...
Let’s Get Ready
All Americans should have access to education that prepares them for success in life. As the world changes and technology evolves, ensuring all students graduate with the skills and knowledge necessary for success is increasingly critical for our nation’s economic competitiveness.
As Governors, we lead states facing economic opportunities but also challenges, shortages in workforce, skills mismatch, and widening opportunity gaps that limit true economic mobility for Americans. We must take these indicators as a call to action.
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Planning for Concurrent Emergencies
Background Given the protracted nature of the COVID-19 pandemic, states will likely experience additional, simultaneous emergencies concurrent with additional outbreaks ...
Information and Guidance on Supporting On-demand Workers through the COVID-19 Crisis
Introduction This memo provides governors and state officials with an overview of the key issues related to on-demand workers during ...
Update on COVID-19 Treatment Development
Introduction COVID-19 treatment development is moving at an unprecedented pace across the world and resulting therapeutics may be critical to ...
Reopening Institutions of Higher Education
Nearly all higher education institutions are at least partially closed and have shifted to online instruction during the spring semester ...
Cost Share Considerations for FEMA Public Assistance Grants
There are many grant programs available through federal agencies to support disaster response and recovery activities. On March 13, 2020 ...
The Defense Production Act & Executive Action Taken in Response to COVID-19
The Defense Production Act (DPA) [50 U.S.C. 4501 et seq] grants the president a broad set of authorities to influence ...
Governor Considerations Regarding Crisis Standards of Care
As part of state public health emergency preparedness initiatives, many states have developed guidelines or frameworks to address crisis standards ...
Creating Water Resilience: State Regulations for Water Reuse and Recycling
As water resources continue to be stressed even in traditionally water rich states by climate change, population growth, pollution and ...
COVID-19 Impacts to Energy Security
The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting the electricity sector, decreasing electric load and increasing the risk of energy incidents. Electricity use ...
Capacity for COVID-19 Testing — Current Status and Considerations
COVID-19 testing is essential to a targeted public health approach for informing clinical care and reducing spreadof the virus until ...
Access and Functional Needs Considerations for COVID-19 Response and Recovery Planning
The COVID-19 pandemic presents unique challenges for the access and functional needs (AFN) of individuals with temporary or permanent challenges ...
Governor Guidance on the Water Sector During COVID-19
This memo highlights several important issues for governors to consider to help states maintain uninterrupted water and wastewater service to ...
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