The LMI Insider – June 2024

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June 2024
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Welcome to LMI Insider –

A Publication of the Labor Market Information Institute
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Thank you to everyone who came to the LMI Forum/C2ER Conference!
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Thank you so much to everyone who came to the LMI/C2ER Conference in Norfolk. We had 304 registrants and 69 people attended our Tuesday training sessions. Over the course of the conference, we hosted over 20 breakouts and roundtables on topics ranging from the history of tracking credentials, to a deep dive on California’s water and wastewater occupational needs, to how Buffalo is improving outcomes for its marginalized communities. It was a week we will never forget, and we can’t wait for the next one. We look forward to seeing everyone again next year in Sacramento, CA!
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Upcoming Events, Trainings, and Webinars
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Data Insights Roundtable: Leveraging CareerOneStop Data & Tools

June 20, 2024

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET

Virtual – this is a live event
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PMP Summit

Sept. 24 – 26, 2024

Denver, Colorado
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Insider View – Be in the Know
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Data Insights Roundtable: Leveraging CareerOneStop Data & Tools
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Join our webinar TODAY at 2:00 PM ET to hear more about how to leverage the data resources and tools available from CareerOneStop.

CareerOneStop is a comprehensive career, education, and job search website that offers tools, resources, and information state LMI offices and partners can leverage in a variety of ways, including data downloads, interactive widgets, and integrating APIs into existing websites.
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Data User Insight Academy Selection
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We are pleased to announce the first cohort of the Data User Insights Academy! These groups will spend the next nine months working together to better understand the needs of the data users in their states. We look forward to this process and will keep the LMI membership up to date with what we learn through this process. The states for this first cohort are: Florida, Iowa, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas.
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Congratulations to our LMI Awardees
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Congratulations to all the 2024 LMI Institute Economic and Workforce Research Award winners! The following projects from LMI Institute members were recognized for their strength and creativity:

  • The California Employment Development won Best State LMI Focus on Equity and Inclusion for their California Industry Sectors Demographics Data Dashboard in Microsoft Power BI.
  • The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services won Best State LMI Product or Collaboration for Project Impact, Program Evaluation, or Assessments with their project, Areas of Substantial Unemployment – Optimizing with R.
  • The Washington Employment Security Department won Best State LMI Product or Collaboration for Regional Resilience for their Wage Records Pilot: Washington’s Inflow and Outflow.
  • The Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development won Best State LMI Product or Collaboration for Data Collection and Dissemination with their Visual Catalog Data Dashboards.
  • The North Carolina Department of Commerce won Best State LMI Product or Collaboration Supporting Workforce System or Jobseekers for their NCcareers.org Career Information System.
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C2ER and LMI Insititute award winners, pictured L to R: Tom Pethan of the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development, Frank Alvarado of Lehigh Valley Economic Development, Clara Richardson of the Greater Huston Partnership, Nick Wallace of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, Jake Polansky of the Baton Rouge Area Chamber, Muhammad Akhtar of the California Employment Development Department, Marion Phillips of Georgia Power Economic Development, Tecora Murray of the Greater Memphis Chamber, Asja Suljic of the Washington State Employment Security Department, and Andrea Lawrence of Middle Tennessee State University.
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Our Thanks to Outgoing PMP Board Chair, Mat Barewicz
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The Projections Managing Partnership (PMP) expresses its sincere gratitude to Mat Barewicz for his dedicated service as the PMP Board Chair in 2023. As is tradition, PMP recognized Mat with a plaque in his honor, which was presented by Michael Harrington (right), Commissioner of the Vermont Department of Labor (VDOL).
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Michael Harrington (right), Commissioner of the Vermont Department of Labor (VDOL) and National Association of State Workforce Agencies (NASWA) Board Chair, presents Mathew Barewicz (left), Director of Economic & Labor Market Information for VDOL, with a plaque recognizing Mathew’s service as the Board Chair of the Projections Management Partnership in 2023.
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Featured Reports and Tools
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Illinois
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As we enter the summer it feels appropriate to draw attention to Illinois’s Summer Job Central online brochure. This brochure provides links and resources for young people and their families regarding summer employment opportunities, child labor laws, and how to teach and think about money. It also provides a list of job boards and sites for finding apprenticeships, internships, and volunteer opportunities. You can also build a profile based on your own interests.
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Mississippi
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Mississippi’s State and Metro Trends is a monthly publication showing both the month to month and year over year change in employment statistics for the state as well as its three metro areas. This includes nonfarm employment, unemployment insurance claims, hours and earnings, and CPI for the South Region. 
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Does your state have a projections dashboard?

Share it with us! We’d love to see it and feature it in the monthly LMI Insider.
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We welcome your feedback on this edition, and for content suggestions in future editions, of The LMI Insider. Please direct comments, questions, or for more information on the LMI Institute to Marty Romitti, CREC Senior Vice President, at mromitti@crec.net
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