DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
The President’s 2009 Budget will:
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Protect workers’ wages, benefits, health and
safety, and union member rights;
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Improve job training and trade adjustment assistance
programs to train more people and help displaced workers find jobs
more quickly;
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Help returning servicemembers transition back into
the civilian workforce;
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Safeguard workers’ pensions; and
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Support efforts to modernize and improve the temporary
foreign labor certification process.
Protecting Workers
Improving Job Training and Trade Adjustment Assistance Programs
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Trains workers more effectively. Increases significantly the number of workers trained—while
saving taxpayer dollars—by reforming the Department’s
job training grant programs. The reforms:
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Consolidate several similar programs and cut Federal
red tape and unnecessary overhead.
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Create Career Advancement Accounts—worker-directed
accounts that help workers develop their skills and compete for 21st
Century jobs.
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Propose a State match, which will better integrate
Federal and State workforce investment resources.
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Helps workers transition. Gives trade-impacted workers the help they need to transition to
new jobs with good wages through reforms to the Trade Adjustment Assistance
program.
Supporting Returning Servicemembers
Safeguarding Workers Pensions
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Improves retirement security. Implements the Pension Protection Act of 2006 reforms.
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Strengthens the Pension Benefit
Guaranty Corporation (PBGC). Restores the solvency of the
pension insurance system and avoids a future taxpayer bailout by raising
the premiums companies pay to PBGC, which protects the defined-benefit
pension plans of 44 million Americans.
Improving the Foreign Labor Certification Process
Major Savings and Reforms
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Terminates or reduces 10 programs representing more
than $1.4 billion, including:
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Employment Service State Grants, which provide services
that duplicate those provided under the Workforce Investment Act programs.
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Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker program, which duplicates
other Federal programs and is insufficiently focused on employment
and training.
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Office of Disability Employment Policy’s grant
program, which duplicates other grant-making programs.
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Proposes legislation that would reduce improper payments
of unemployment insurance by $3.6 billion and recover almost $200
million in delinquent taxes over 10 years.
Since 2001, the Department of Labor has:
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Provided leadership in the effort to strengthen the
pension system to ensure that Americans have a secure retirement.
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Posted the strongest-ever worker protection enforcement
results.
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Revised outdated regulations to better protect workers
by strengthening overtime protections for more than 6.7 million workers
and improving the transparency of labor union finances.
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Modernized the permanent foreign labor certification
program and eliminated the chronic backlog, which stood at 363,000
applicants at the beginning of the Administration.
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Published the first-ever regulations explaining the
reemployment rights and protections for our National Guard, Reserve,
and active duty servicemembers serving in the Global War on Terror
and elsewhere around the world.
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Implemented innovative programs to enhance America’s
competitiveness through the High Growth Job Training Initiative, Community-Based
Job Training Grants, and Workforce Innovation in Regional and Economic Development initiative.
Department of Labor
(Dollar amounts in millions)
|
2007
Actual |
Estimate |
2008 |
2009 |
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|
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Spending |
|
|
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Discretionary
Budget Authority: |
|
|
|
Training and Employment
Services 1 |
|
|
|
Existing law |
3,552 |
3,295 |
3,061 |
Legislative proposal |
— |
— |
50 |
Unemployment Insurance
Administration |
2,508 |
2,464 |
2,636 |
Employment Service/One-Stop
Career Centers 1 |
|
|
|
Existing law |
820 |
790 |
69 |
Legislative proposal |
— |
— |
−50 |
Office of Job
Corps |
1,607 |
1,598 |
1,565 |
Community Service
Employment for Older Americans |
484 |
522 |
350 |
Bureau of Labor
Statistics |
548 |
544 |
593 |
Occupational Safety
and Health Administration |
487 |
486 |
502 |
Mine Safety and
Health Administration |
302 |
334 |
332 |
Employment Standards
Administration |
421 |
421 |
438 |
Employee Benefits
Security Administration |
149 |
139 |
148 |
Veterans’
Employment and Training |
223 |
228 |
238 |
Departmental Management |
226 |
211 |
148 |
Bureau of International
Labor Affairs |
73 |
81 |
15 |
Office of Disability
Employment Policy |
28 |
27 |
12 |
All other |
259 |
260 |
405 |
Total, Discretionary
budget authority |
11,687 |
11,400 |
10,512 |
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|
|
|
Memorandum: Budget authority from enacted supplementals |
−8 |
— |
— |
|
|
|
|
Total, Discretionary
outlays |
11,671 |
11,610 |
12,225 |
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|
|
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Mandatory Outlays: |
|
|
|
Unemployment Insurance
Benefits |
32,576 |
34,760 |
37,352 |
Trade Adjustment
Assistance |
|
|
|
Existing law |
777 |
834 |
911 |
Legislative proposal |
— |
— |
6 |
Pension Benefit
Guaranty Corporation 2 |
|
|
|
Existing law |
457 |
332 |
−202 |
Legislative proposal |
— |
— |
−395 |
|
|
|
|
Black Lung Benefits
Program 3 |
|
|
|
Existing law |
1,355 |
1,344 |
1,324 |
Legislative proposal |
— |
— |
2,288 |
Federal Employees’
Compensation Act |
|
|
|
Existing law |
111 |
200 |
160 |
Legislative proposal |
— |
— |
−10 |
Energy Employees
Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act |
1,137 |
1,109 |
1,050 |
All other |
−526 |
−522 |
−496 |
Total, Mandatory
outlays |
35,887 |
38,057 |
41,988 |
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|
|
|
Total, Outlays |
47,558 |
49,667 |
54,213 |
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Number of Programs |
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2009 Savings |
Major Savings, Discretionary |
|
|
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Terminations |
4 |
|
−111 |
Reductions |
6 |
|
−1,318 |
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1 2009 reflects the Administration’s
proposal to merge four grant programs and create Career Advancement
Accounts.
2 Net mandatory outlays are negative
when offsetting collections exceed outlays.
3 2009 reflects the Black Lung debt refinancing, which
includes a one-time payment to the Treasury. There is no Government-wide
budgetary effect until 2014, when the excise tax rates would be extended.
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