A comprehensive guide to help state and local government leaders and HR professionals create and sustain registered apprenticeship programs to address talent shortages.

Six strategies for state administrators to integrate equitable workforce development into State Revolving Fund programs, ensuring that water infrastructure investments create inclusive job opportunities in underserved communities.

Delaware’s SFY24 Intended Use Plan (IUP) set-aside funds 2% of the Capitalization Grant to create career pathways for high school students in water distribution, operations, and treatment through pre-apprenticeship programs (p. 14).

Wisconsin’s SFY24 Intended Use Plan (IUP) includes a short-term goal to “explore avenues to support pre-apprenticeship, registered apprenticeship, and youth training programs that open pathways to employment” (p. 4).

St. Paul Regional Water hires 30 new employees to speed lead line replacement and has grown its workforce by at least 10% to meet the growing need to expand their lead service line replacement program.

This user guide offers a comprehensive roadmap to help stakeholders leverage federal investments for infrastructure modernization, job creation, and environmental improvements across key sectors.

Three strategies states can adopt to make it easier for communities to take up the federal funding for lead service line replacement (LSLR) made available through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL).

This report provides best practices for lead service line replacement based on lessons learned from the Lead-Free Water Challenge.

The City of Newark sped up contractor timelines, advertised multiple contracts close together to lower costs, and issued varied contract sizes to support local small firms.

The city of Benton Harbor included a pay for success clause in their bid documents that provided contractors with an incentive for each day the work was completed ahead of schedule.