Pathways to Prosperity Act
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Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill creates a competitive workforce development grant program for community colleges to build or expand high-quality programs that lead to portable, stackable credentials in high-skill, high-wage, or in-demand fields.
Who Benefits and How
Community colleges and students could gain more support for industry-aligned training programs, employer partnerships, and pathways to recognized credentials and employment.
Who Bears the Burden and How
The Department of Labor and grant recipients would need to administer a competitive grant program with detailed applications, partnership requirements, performance metrics, evaluation, and reporting.
Key Provisions
- Creates competitive workforce development grants for eligible community colleges.
- Requires employer partnerships, evidence-based program design, performance goals, and evaluation.
- Allows recurring grants only after performance benchmarks are met and updates the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act table of contents.
Evidence Chain:
This summary is generated from the full bill text using AI analysis. Expand "Detailed Analysis" below for identified beneficiaries/burden bearers.
At a Glance
What This Bill Does
This bill creates a competitive workforce development grant program for community colleges to build or expand high-quality programs that lead to portable, stackable credentials in high-skill, high-wage, or in-demand fields.
Key Policy Areas
Education, Labor, Economic Development
Primary Purpose
This bill creates a competitive workforce development grant program for community colleges to build or expand high-quality programs that lead to portable, stackable credentials in high-skill, high-wage, or in-demand fields.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Community colleges and students pursuing high-skill, high-wage, or in-demand career pathways
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Department of Labor officials and grant recipients implementing the community-college workforce grant framework
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeCommittee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Hearings held.
Mr. Marshall (for himself and Mr. Warnock) introduced the following …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, …
Introduced in Senate
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Community colleges eligible for workforce development grants, Students pursuing workforce credentials through grant-funded community college programs
Department of Labor officials and grantees administering the program and reporting requirements
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the_secretary"
- → Secretary of Labor
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