29 U.S.C. § 2811
Section 2811 · Purpose
Amended 1 time on record
Applied in 15 court decisions — leading case Santana v. Calderón (2003)
Most recently applied in American Federation of State v. Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board (March 2015)
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Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
The purpose of this subchapter is to provide workforce investment activities, through statewide and local workforce investment systems, that increase the employment, retention, and earnings of participants, and increase occupational skill attainment by participants, and, as a result, improve the quality of the workforce, reduce welfare dependency, and enhance the productivity and competitiveness of the Nation.