E&W Blog

By Eric Morath and Lauren Weber - Friday, March 1, 2019 The job market doesn’t get much better than this. The U.S. economy has added jobs for 100 consecutive months. Unemployment recently touched its lowest level in 49 years. Workers are so scarce that, in many parts of the country, low-skill jobs are being handed out to pretty much anyone willing to take them—and high-skilled workers are in even... Read more »

Watch Education and Labor Republican Leader Virginia Foxx kick off Women's History Month by reflecting on the incredible contributions of the American women who helped get us to where we are today. To watch, click here. Read more »

ICYMI:Terry L. Stoops: Addressing school facilities needs requires fresh ideas By Terry L. Stoops—Wednesday February 20, 2019 On Feb. 12, Sharon Contreras, superintendent of Guilford County Schools, appeared before the U.S. House Committee on Education and Labor to discuss teacher compensation and school facilities. She offered sobering statistics on the age and condition of school buildings and ... Read more »

ICYMI: Preview Of The Coming Medicare For All Debate By Grace-Marie Turner—Thursday February 7, 2019 The pre-existing condition scare tactics continue. I testified yesterday—as the sole witness called by the Republican minority—during a House Education and Labor Committee hearing on “Examining Threats to Workers with Preexisting Conditions.” It was the first hearing of the new Congress under the ... Read more »

National School Choice Week: “Every student deserves an excellent education…” Read more »

Education and Labor Committee Senior Republican Virginia Foxx sheds some light on the committee’s history, why words matter, and what it means to work for everybody. Read more »

By Rep. Virginia Foxx — from the January 2, 2019 print edition Read more »

Seven million unfilled jobs and more than $1.5 trillion in student debt means that the status quo is doing more harm than good. In the 115th Congress, the Committee on Education and the Workforce changed the conversation around higher education. Read more »

One of the most important things we’ve done in the 115th Congress was our tireless work, in true bipartisan fashion, on legislation to reform our juvenile justice system. Read more »

The Committee on Education and the Workforce had a lot to celebrate during the 115th Congress, but one of its biggest accomplishments was the strong bipartisan passage of H.R. 2353, the Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act. Read more »