RELEASE: New CAP Issue Brief Recommends How Federal Laws Can Create Pathways From Education and Training to Good Jobs Date: January 12, 2021 Phone: 202.481.8145 Washington, D.C. — A new issue brief released today by the Center for American Progress gives recommendations for how to build a system of connected federal education and training laws and regulations based on job quality. Creating this consistency will help to shape the workforce in ways that provide good jobs for all and help to eliminate inequality. The issue brief suggests that federal laws take such a unified approach to build pathways to better jobs. This can be done by integrating job quality features into federal education and workforce laws. The brief also recommends updating these laws to better coordinate policy design and avoid developing job quality policies in silos. These recommendations are informed by conversations with local leaders of education and training programs across the country so that they can better respond to the real-time needs of students and workers.