The Workforce Investment Act in Eight States: Overview of Findings from a Field Network Study

July 2003 The Rockefeller Institute of Government The Workforce Investment Act in Eight States: Overview of Findings from a Field Network Study The Workforce Investment Act (WIA) of 1998 is a hybrid block grant. It allows considerable discretion to states and local entities while at the same time setting overall policy goals and establishing structural and oversight mechanisms. In point of fact, there is no such thing as a pure block grant (Here's the money just do it your way). The nature of the federalism bargain for all such large intergovernmental subventions is shaped horizontally at the center where . . .