Workforce Investment Act: Issues Related to Allocation Formulas for Youth, Adults, and Dislocated Workers

June 2003 Moving Toward Market-Based Government: The Changing Role  of Government as the Provider The Workforce Investment Act (WIA) of 1998 required states to streamline employment and training services and established three separate funding streams for serving youth, adults, and dislocated workers, for which about $3.3 billion was appropriated for fiscal year 2003. The formulas for distributing these funds to the states were left largely unchanged from those used to distribute funds under the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) of 1982, which served a different set of target populations. In anticipation of the upcoming debates on WIA's . . .