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Dislocated Worker National Emergency Grants

National Emergency Grants are intended to temporarily expand the service capacity of Workforce Investment Act training and employment programs at the state and local levels by providing time-limited funding assistance in response to large and often, unexpected economic shocks which cause significant job losses.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Adequate

This rating describes a program that needs to set more ambitious goals, achieve better results, improve accountability or strengthen its management practices.
  • Program performance has varied, but some factors are improving. Participant earnings replacement trends are positive and grant application processing time has improved. Entered employment results, however, fell in 2005.
  • Many performance measures lack ambitious targets to drive improved performance. The program has established baselines for all of its performance measures. However, the program has not set targets for its efficiency measure and the targets for the employment retention rate are not above performance levels attained in previous years.
  • The program has not completed a formal evaluation of sufficient scope or quality to evaluate overall program effectiveness. Evaluations to date have included a limited base closure study and studies of the administration, implementation processes, and timeliness of NEG applications and awards.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Developing a formalized system to ensure that the program processes the most important grants more quickly.
  • Establishing baselines and ambitious targets for its performance measures.
  • Adopting efficiency measures that are linked to performance outcomes, account for all costs, and facilitate comparisons across Department of Labor training and employment programs.

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