The US Labor Department will stop requiring outreach to disadvantaged workers

The US Labor Department plans to remove rules that require job training programs to actively recruit disadvantaged workers. This means programs receiving federal money will no longer have to prove they are reaching out to specific groups like people with disabilities or those with limited English.

For years, federal job training programs had to show they were making an effort to include everyone, especially those who might otherwise be overlooked. This change means those programs can now simply wait for people to apply. It shifts the burden of finding job training from the programs to the workers themselves.