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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ADMINISTRATION WORK OPPORTUNITY TAX CREDIT (WOTC)
STATE ALLOTMENT GRANTS IMPACT OF FORMULA CHANGES ON FY 2024 ALLOTMENTS TO STATES—Continued
FY 2023 (actual)
Allotment
Percentage
share
Allotment
Percentage
share
Percentage
share difference
(FY 2024 vs.
FY 2023)
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
State
Kansas ...............................................................................
Kentucky ............................................................................
Louisiana ............................................................................
Maine .................................................................................
Maryland ............................................................................
Massachusetts ...................................................................
Michigan .............................................................................
Minnesota ...........................................................................
Mississippi ..........................................................................
Missouri ..............................................................................
Montana .............................................................................
Nebraska ............................................................................
Nevada ...............................................................................
New Hampshire .................................................................
New Jersey ........................................................................
New Mexico .......................................................................
New York ...........................................................................
North Carolina ....................................................................
North Dakota ......................................................................
Ohio ....................................................................................
Oklahoma ...........................................................................
Oregon ...............................................................................
Pennsylvania ......................................................................
Puerto Rico ........................................................................
Rhode Island ......................................................................
South Carolina ...................................................................
South Dakota .....................................................................
Tennessee .........................................................................
Texas .................................................................................
Utah ....................................................................................
Vermont ..............................................................................
Virginia ...............................................................................
Washington ........................................................................
W. Virginia ..........................................................................
Wisconsin ...........................................................................
Wyoming ............................................................................
146,904
353,854
288,003
66,000
398,705
380,504
574,630
288,016
207,390
378,621
66,000
133,374
166,333
66,000
326,817
169,874
1,253,665
510,810
66,000
720,311
260,321
260,465
710,605
81,519
71,478
250,468
66,000
653,761
1,310,072
108,459
66,000
414,000
415,914
118,367
320,045
66,000
0.8
1.9
1.6
0.4
2.2
2.1
3.1
1.6
1.1
2.1
0.4
0.7
0.9
0.4
1.8
0.9
6.8
2.8
0.4
3.9
1.4
1.4
3.8
0.4
0.4
1.4
0.4
3.5
7.1
0.6
0.4
2.2
2.3
0.6
1.7
0.4
139,438
335,870
294,826
79,131
378,442
361,166
545,425
273,378
196,850
359,378
79,131
126,596
162,766
79,131
354,620
161,240
1,189,950
522,119
79,131
825,339
247,091
247,227
674,490
97,738
85,699
267,444
79,131
620,535
1,507,945
119,000
79,131
392,959
394,776
119,000
308,525
79,131
0.8
1.8
1.6
0.4
2.1
2.0
3.0
1.5
1.1
1.9
0.4
0.7
0.9
0.4
1.9
0.9
6.4
2.8
0.4
4.5
1.3
1.3
3.7
0.5
0.5
1.4
0.4
3.4
8.2
0.6
0.4
2.1
2.1
0.6
1.7
0.4
¥5.0
¥5.0
2.5
20.0
¥5.0
¥5.0
¥5.0
¥5.0
¥5.0
¥5.0
20.0
¥5.0
¥2.1
20.0
8.6
¥5.0
¥5.0
2.3
20.0
14.7
¥5.0
¥5.0
¥5.0
20.0
20.0
6.9
20.0
¥5.0
15.2
9.8
20.0
¥5.0
¥5.0
0.6
¥3.5
20.0
Total ............................................................................
Virgin Islands (non-formula) ...............................................
18,465,000
20,000
100
n/a
18,449,000
36,000
100
n/a
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training
Administration
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FY 2024 (actual)
Employment and Training
Administration Program Year 2024
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity
Act Section 167, National Farmworker
Jobs Program Preliminary State
Allotments
Employment and Training
Administration, Labor.
ACTION: Notice; request for comments.
AGENCY:
This Notice announces
preliminary planning estimates for the
National Farmworker Jobs Program
SUMMARY:
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(NFJP) Career Services and Training
grants for Program Year (PY) 2024. This
Notice also explains the allotment
process that ETA will follow in the
event that it does not award funds to
any grantee in a particular state in the
PY 2024 competition.
DATES: The PY 2024 NFJP allotments
become effective for the grant period
that begins July 1, 2024. Written
comments on this notice are invited and
must be received on June 25, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Comments are accepted via
email to NFJP@dol.gov. Please enter
‘‘PY24 National Farmworker Jobs
Program State Allotments Public
Comment’’ in the subject line of the
email.
Comments: The Department will
retain all comments on this notice and
will release them upon request via email
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It is the commenter’s responsibility to
safeguard his or her information.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Steven Rietzke, Chief, Division of
National Programs, Tools and Technical
Assistance, Office of Workforce
Investment, at 202–693–3980. (This is
not a toll-free number.) If you are deaf,
hard of hearing, or have a speech
disability, please dial 7–1–1 to access
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
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Opportunity Act, Prompt Allotment of
Funds.
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I. Background
The Department has announced the
availability of funding for NFJP grants
through the PY 2024 Funding
Opportunity Announcement (FOA). In
distributing funds, the Employment and
Training Administration (ETA)
calculates allotments for NFJP Career
Services and Training grantees through
an administrative formula. This notice
provides preliminary planning estimates
for the NFJP Career Services and
Training grants. The allotments are
based on the funds appropriated in the
Further Consolidated Appropriations
Act, 2024, Public Law 118–47 (from this
point forward will be referred to as the
‘‘the Act’’).
PY 2024 funding levels, to use for
planning purposes, are based on the
full-year funding levels for this program
in PY 2023 as indicated in Federal
Register notice 88 FR 31279, May 16,
2023, pro-rated based on the availability
of funding for NFJP formula grants in
PY 2024. In PY 2024, Congress has
provided $90,134,000 for formula grants
(of which $90,048,000 is available for
formula grants after setting aside
$86,000 for program integrity). While
Congress appropriated the same amount
for formula grants in PY 2023 and PY
2024, ETA is setting aside less funding
in PY 2024 for program integrity.
Accordingly, as noted above and
explained further below, ETA is
calculating state allotment amounts by
pro-rating the PY 2024 allotment
amounts based on the results of the PY
2023 formula and the updated
availability of formula funding after setasides in PY 2024.
In the competition for NFJP Career
Services and Training grants, if the
Department does not receive any
competitive applications from eligible
applicants for a state, the Department
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does not plan to reopen the competition
to seek prospective applicants to
provide services in a state. In
determining a course of action for a
given state, the Department will follow
the procedures described in the Funding
Opportunity Announcement for the
competition. For any state where the
Department determines it will not
award an NFJP grant under the PY 2024
competition, it will instead redistribute
the state’s funds among the grants
awarded to other state service areas,
distributing funds proportionally based
on the NFJP allotment formula results
for PY 2024.
As background, the PY 2024
appropriation also provides $6,591,000
for migrant and seasonal farmworker
housing (of which $6,585,000 was
allotted after $6,000 was set aside for
program integrity and of which not less
than 70 percent shall be for permanent
housing), and another $671,000 was set
aside for discretionary purposes. The
Housing grant allotments are distributed
as a result of a competition and are not
the subject of this Notice.
This notice includes the following
sections:
• Section II of this notice provides a
discussion of the data used to populate
the formula.
• Section III describes the prorated
method for allotments for the
implementation year starting in PY
2024.
• Section IV describes minimum
funding provisions to address State
service areas that would receive less
than $60,000.
• Section V provides preliminary
state allotments for PY 2024.
II. Description of Data Files and
Allotment Formula
The formula’s original methodology is
described in the Federal Register notice
64 FR 27390, May 19, 1999. In PY 2018,
ETA incorporated two modifications to
the allotment formula to provide more
accurate estimates of each state service
area’s relative share of persons eligible
for the program. The formula also used
updated data from each of the four data
files serving as the basis of the formula
since 1999. The revised formula
methodology is described in the Federal
Register notice 83 FR 32151, July 11,
2018. In PY 2021, ETA incorporated two
modifications to the allotment formula.
These modifications are described in
Federal Register notice 86 FR 32063,
June 16, 2021. The Federal Register
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notices are accessible at https://
www.federalregister.gov/.
Like the PY 23 appropriation, the PY
24 appropriation includes the language
expanding eligibility to farmworkers
who are in families with total family
incomes at or below 150 percent of the
poverty line rather than the higher of
the poverty line or 70 percent of the
lower living standard income level.
Because the PY 2024 allotments will be
prorated based on the results of the PY
2023 formula, the PY 2024 allotment
results continue to reflect modifications
to the formula related to this expansion.
ETA will subsequently revise relevant
guidance regarding the definition of
‘‘low-income individual’’ as needed if
the same expansion of eligibility is not
included in subsequent appropriations.
III. Description of the Prorated Method
for Allotments
The Department will use a prorated
method for PY 2024 allotments. For PY
2024, each state service area will receive
a prorated allotment, which is based on
their PY 2023 allotment percentage, as
applied to the PY 2024 formula funds
available. ETA anticipates updating data
and reimplementing a staged stop loss/
stop gain in PY 2026. ETA will explain
its approach to calculating allotments in
PY 2026 in a subsequent notice at a later
date.
IV. Minimum Funding Provisions
A state service area which would
receive less than $60,000 by application
of the formula will, at the option of the
DOL, receive no allotment or, if
practical, be combined with another
adjacent state service area. The
Department has determined that
funding below $60,000 is insufficient
for sustaining an independently
administered program.
V. Program Year 2024 Preliminary
State Allotments
The planning estimates set forth in
the Table appended to this notice reflect
the distribution resulting from the
prorated methodology described above.
For purposes of illustrating the effects
of using the prorated methodology,
columns 2 and 3 show the state
allotments for PY 2023 (which
incorporated an 85 percent stop loss)
and prorated method for PY 2024. The
dollar difference between PY 2023 and
PY 2024 allotments is shown in column
4. The percent difference is reported in
column 5.
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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ADMINISTRATION, NATIONAL FARMWORKER JOBS PROGRAM—
CAREER SERVICES AND TRAINING GRANTS
[Program year 2024 preliminary state allotments]
PY 2023
85% stop loss/
150% stop
gain
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State
PY 2024
Prorated
no stop loss/
stop gain
$
Difference
%
Difference
Total .................................................................................................................
$90,032,000
$90,048,000
$16,000
0.02
Alabama ...........................................................................................................
Alaska ..............................................................................................................
Arizona .............................................................................................................
Arkansas ..........................................................................................................
California ..........................................................................................................
Colorado ..........................................................................................................
Connecticut ......................................................................................................
Delaware ..........................................................................................................
Dist of Columbia ..............................................................................................
Florida ..............................................................................................................
Georgia ............................................................................................................
Hawaii ..............................................................................................................
Idaho ................................................................................................................
Illinois ...............................................................................................................
Indiana .............................................................................................................
Iowa .................................................................................................................
Kansas .............................................................................................................
Kentucky ..........................................................................................................
Louisiana ..........................................................................................................
Maine ...............................................................................................................
Maryland ..........................................................................................................
Massachusetts .................................................................................................
Michigan ...........................................................................................................
Minnesota ........................................................................................................
Mississippi ........................................................................................................
Missouri ............................................................................................................
Montana ...........................................................................................................
Nebraska ..........................................................................................................
Nevada .............................................................................................................
New Hampshire ...............................................................................................
New Jersey ......................................................................................................
New Mexico .....................................................................................................
New York .........................................................................................................
North Carolina ..................................................................................................
North Dakota ....................................................................................................
Ohio .................................................................................................................
Oklahoma .........................................................................................................
Oregon .............................................................................................................
Pennsylvania ....................................................................................................
Puerto Rico ......................................................................................................
Rhode Island ....................................................................................................
South Carolina .................................................................................................
South Dakota ...................................................................................................
Tennessee .......................................................................................................
Texas ...............................................................................................................
Utah .................................................................................................................
Vermont ...........................................................................................................
Virginia .............................................................................................................
Washington ......................................................................................................
West Virginia ....................................................................................................
Wisconsin .........................................................................................................
Wyoming ..........................................................................................................
800,937
........................
2,634,816
1,305,806
23,902,460
1,819,486
548,535
169,171
........................
3,266,891
1,812,785
247,248
2,401,585
2,001,796
1,345,052
1,922,448
1,360,695
864,671
856,431
446,523
570,199
561,137
2,269,118
1,721,315
953,815
1,334,410
765,413
1,364,634
245,041
159,717
842,456
1,168,559
2,373,732
2,179,435
805,556
1,572,744
958,308
2,415,002
1,928,391
2,112,901
70,975
718,772
728,488
686,894
4,788,352
715,651
224,029
811,392
4,935,737
119,307
1,881,174
342,010
801,079
........................
2,635,284
1,306,038
23,906,708
1,819,809
548,632
169,201
........................
3,267,472
1,813,107
247,292
2,402,012
2,002,152
1,345,291
1,922,790
1,360,937
864,825
856,583
446,602
570,300
561,237
2,269,521
1,721,621
953,985
1,334,647
765,549
1,364,877
245,085
159,745
842,606
1,168,767
2,374,154
2,179,822
805,699
1,573,024
958,478
2,415,431
1,928,734
2,113,276
70,988
718,900
728,617
687,016
4,789,203
715,778
224,069
811,536
4,936,614
119,328
1,881,508
342,071
142
........................
468
232
4,248
323
97
30
........................
581
322
44
427
356
239
342
242
154
152
79
101
100
403
306
170
237
136
243
44
28
150
208
422
387
143
280
170
429
343
375
13
128
129
122
851
127
40
144
877
21
334
61
0.02
0.00
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training Administration
Employment and Training Administration Program Year 2024
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act Section 167, National
Farmworker Jobs Program Preliminary State Allotments
AGENCY: Employment and Training Administration, Labor.
ACTION: Notice; request for comments.
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SUMMARY: This Notice announces preliminary planning estimates for the
National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP) Career Services and Training
grants for Program Year (PY) 2024. This Notice also explains the
allotment process that ETA will follow in the event that it does not
award funds to any grantee in a particular state in the PY 2024
competition.
DATES: The PY 2024 NFJP allotments become effective for the grant
period that begins July 1, 2024. Written comments on this notice are
invited and must be received on June 25, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Comments are accepted via email to [email protected]. Please
enter ``PY24 National Farmworker Jobs Program State Allotments Public
Comment'' in the subject line of the email.
Comments: The Department will retain all comments on this notice
and will release them upon request via email to any member of the
public. The Department will make copies of this notice available, upon
request, in large print, Braille, and electronic file. The Department
also will consider providing the notice in other formats upon request.
To obtain the notice in an alternative format, contact the Department
using the information provided above. The Department will retain all
comments received without making any changes to the comments, including
any personal information provided. The Department therefore cautions
commenters not to include their personal information such as Social
Security Numbers, personal addresses, telephone numbers, and email
addresses in their comments; this information would be released with
the comment if the comments are requested.
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It is the commenter's responsibility to safeguard his or her
information.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Steven Rietzke, Chief, Division of
National Programs, Tools and Technical Assistance, Office of Workforce
Investment, at 202-693-3980. (This is not a toll-free number.) If you
are deaf, hard of hearing, or have a speech disability, please dial 7-
1-1 to access telecommunications relay services.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice is published pursuant to Section
182(d) of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, Prompt
Allotment of Funds.
I. Background
The Department has announced the availability of funding for NFJP
grants through the PY 2024 Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA). In
distributing funds, the Employment and Training Administration (ETA)
calculates allotments for NFJP Career Services and Training grantees
through an administrative formula. This notice provides preliminary
planning estimates for the NFJP Career Services and Training grants.
The allotments are based on the funds appropriated in the Further
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024, Public Law 118-47 (from this
point forward will be referred to as the ``the Act'').
PY 2024 funding levels, to use for planning purposes, are based on
the full-year funding levels for this program in PY 2023 as indicated
in Federal Register notice 88 FR 31279, May 16, 2023, pro-rated based
on the availability of funding for NFJP formula grants in PY 2024. In
PY 2024, Congress has provided $90,134,000 for formula grants (of which
$90,048,000 is available for formula grants after setting aside $86,000
for program integrity). While Congress appropriated the same amount for
formula grants in PY 2023 and PY 2024, ETA is setting aside less
funding in PY 2024 for program integrity. Accordingly, as noted above
and explained further below, ETA is calculating state allotment amounts
by pro-rating the PY 2024 allotment amounts based on the results of the
PY 2023 formula and the updated availability of formula funding after
set-asides in PY 2024.
In the competition for NFJP Career Services and Training grants, if
the Department does not receive any competitive applications from
eligible applicants for a state, the Department does not plan to reopen
the competition to seek prospective applicants to provide services in a
state. In determining a course of action for a given state, the
Department will follow the procedures described in the Funding
Opportunity Announcement for the competition. For any state where the
Department determines it will not award an NFJP grant under the PY 2024
competition, it will instead redistribute the state's funds among the
grants awarded to other state service areas, distributing funds
proportionally based on the NFJP allotment formula results for PY 2024.
As background, the PY 2024 appropriation also provides $6,591,000
for migrant and seasonal farmworker housing (of which $6,585,000 was
allotted after $6,000 was set aside for program integrity and of which
not less than 70 percent shall be for permanent housing), and another
$671,000 was set aside for discretionary purposes. The Housing grant
allotments are distributed as a result of a competition and are not the
subject of this Notice.
This notice includes the following sections:
Section II of this notice provides a discussion of the
data used to populate the formula.
Section III describes the prorated method for allotments
for the implementation year starting in PY 2024.
Section IV describes minimum funding provisions to address
State service areas that would receive less than $60,000.
Section V provides preliminary state allotments for PY
2024.
II. Description of Data Files and Allotment Formula
The formula's original methodology is described in the Federal
Register notice 64 FR 27390, May 19, 1999. In PY 2018, ETA incorporated
two modifications to the allotment formula to provide more accurate
estimates of each state service area's relative share of persons
eligible for the program. The formula also used updated data from each
of the four data files serving as the basis of the formula since 1999.
The revised formula methodology is described in the Federal Register
notice 83 FR 32151, July 11, 2018. In PY 2021, ETA incorporated two
modifications to the allotment formula. These modifications are
described in Federal Register notice 86 FR 32063, June 16, 2021. The
Federal Register notices are accessible at https://www.federalregister.gov/.
Like the PY 23 appropriation, the PY 24 appropriation includes the
language expanding eligibility to farmworkers who are in families with
total family incomes at or below 150 percent of the poverty line rather
than the higher of the poverty line or 70 percent of the lower living
standard income level. Because the PY 2024 allotments will be prorated
based on the results of the PY 2023 formula, the PY 2024 allotment
results continue to reflect modifications to the formula related to
this expansion. ETA will subsequently revise relevant guidance
regarding the definition of ``low-income individual'' as needed if the
same expansion of eligibility is not included in subsequent
appropriations.
III. Description of the Prorated Method for Allotments
The Department will use a prorated method for PY 2024 allotments.
For PY 2024, each state service area will receive a prorated allotment,
which is based on their PY 2023 allotment percentage, as applied to the
PY 2024 formula funds available. ETA anticipates updating data and
reimplementing a staged stop loss/stop gain in PY 2026. ETA will
explain its approach to calculating allotments in PY 2026 in a
subsequent notice at a later date.
IV. Minimum Funding Provisions
A state service area which would receive less than $60,000 by
application of the formula will, at the option of the DOL, receive no
allotment or, if practical, be combined with another adjacent state
service area. The Department has determined that funding below $60,000
is insufficient for sustaining an independently administered program.
V. Program Year 2024 Preliminary State Allotments
The planning estimates set forth in the Table appended to this
notice reflect the distribution resulting from the prorated methodology
described above.
For purposes of illustrating the effects of using the prorated
methodology, columns 2 and 3 show the state allotments for PY 2023
(which incorporated an 85 percent stop loss) and prorated method for PY
2024. The dollar difference between PY 2023 and PY 2024 allotments is
shown in column 4. The percent difference is reported in column 5.
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PY 2024
PY 2023 85% Prorated no
State stop loss/ stop loss/stop $ Difference % Difference
150% stop gain gain
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Total........................................... $90,032,000 $90,048,000 $16,000 0.02
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Alabama......................................... 800,937 801,079 142 0.02
Alaska.......................................... .............. .............. .............. 0.00
Arizona......................................... 2,634,816 2,635,284 468 0.02
Arkansas........................................ 1,305,806 1,306,038 232 0.02
California...................................... 23,902,460 23,906,708 4,248 0.02
Colorado........................................ 1,819,486 1,819,809 323 0.02
Connecticut..................................... 548,535 548,632 97 0.02
Delaware........................................ 169,171 169,201 30 0.02
Dist of Columbia................................ .............. .............. .............. 0.00
Florida......................................... 3,266,891 3,267,472 581 0.02
Georgia......................................... 1,812,785 1,813,107 322 0.02
Hawaii.......................................... 247,248 247,292 44 0.02
Idaho........................................... 2,401,585 2,402,012 427 0.02
Illinois........................................ 2,001,796 2,002,152 356 0.02
Indiana......................................... 1,345,052 1,345,291 239 0.02
Iowa............................................ 1,922,448 1,922,790 342 0.02
Kansas.......................................... 1,360,695 1,360,937 242 0.02
Kentucky........................................ 864,671 864,825 154 0.02
Louisiana....................................... 856,431 856,583 152 0.02
Maine........................................... 446,523 446,602 79 0.02
Maryland........................................ 570,199 570,300 101 0.02
Massachusetts................................... 561,137 561,237 100 0.02
Michigan........................................ 2,269,118 2,269,521 403 0.02
Minnesota....................................... 1,721,315 1,721,621 306 0.02
Mississippi..................................... 953,815 953,985 170 0.02
Missouri........................................ 1,334,410 1,334,647 237 0.02
Montana......................................... 765,413 765,549 136 0.02
Nebraska........................................ 1,364,634 1,364,877 243 0.02
Nevada.......................................... 245,041 245,085 44 0.02
New Hampshire................................... 159,717 159,745 28 0.02
New Jersey...................................... 842,456 842,606 150 0.02
New Mexico...................................... 1,168,559 1,168,767 208 0.02
New York........................................ 2,373,732 2,374,154 422 0.02
North Carolina.................................. 2,179,435 2,179,822 387 0.02
North Dakota.................................... 805,556 805,699 143 0.02
Ohio............................................ 1,572,744 1,573,024 280 0.02
Oklahoma........................................ 958,308 958,478 170 0.02
Oregon.......................................... 2,415,002 2,415,431 429 0.02
Pennsylvania.................................... 1,928,391 1,928,734 343 0.02
Puerto Rico..................................... 2,112,901 2,113,276 375 0.02
Rhode Island.................................... 70,975 70,988 13 0.02
South Carolina.................................. 718,772 718,900 128 0.02
South Dakota.................................... 728,488 728,617 129 0.02
Tennessee....................................... 686,894 687,016 122 0.02
Texas........................................... 4,788,352 4,789,203 851 0.02
Utah............................................ 715,651 715,778 127 0.02
Vermont......................................... 224,029 224,069 40 0.02
Virginia........................................ 811,392 811,536 144 0.02
Washington...................................... 4,935,737 4,936,614 877 0.02
West Virginia................................... 119,307 119,328 21 0.02
Wisconsin....................................... 1,881,174 1,881,508 334 0.02
Wyoming......................................... 342,010 342,071 61 0.02
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Jos[eacute] Javier Rodr[iacute]guez,
Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training Administration, Labor.
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