Programs
R&R
WFS Offices
Staff
Acrimonious Acronyms
100

This program assists recipients of TANF.

What is Choices?
100

This entity administers the Unemployment Insurance system.

What is TWC?

100

Amarillo's Workforce Board Area.

What is Panhandle WDA?

100

These are indicators (metrics) of a Board's success and performance.

What are performance measures?

100

TANF

What is Temporary Assistance for Needy Families?

200

Assists dislocated workers and low income adults.

What is WIOA?

200

Responsible for ensuring the contractor/service provider meets performance measures. 

Who are Board staff?

200

What is Borderplex WDA?

What is El Paso?
200

The TWC Commissioners represent what three sectors of the economy?

Who are Employers, Labor, and the Public?

200
SNAP

What is Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program?

300

You might be enrolled in this program if your company moves overseas.

What is TAA (Trade Adjustment Assistance)?

300
The person who runs the day-to-day operations of the Workforce Solutions office.

Who is the contractor/service provider?

300

McAllen

What is Lower Rio?

300

Texas' online job matching system, available 24/7 at no cost.

What is WorkIn Texas?

300

DVOP

What is Disabled Veterans' Outreach Program?

400

What program can help someone earn their GED?

What are AEL services? (Adult Education and Literacy).

400

They serve as the administrative arm of the Local Workforce Development Board.

Who are Board staff?

400

Houston

What is Gulf Coast?

400

The two main customer groups accessing services from Texas Workforce Solutions?

Who are Employers and Job Seekers?

400

E.S.

Employment Services or Wagner-Peyser Employment Services.

500

This program teaches assistive technology.

What are Vocational Rehabilitation services?

500

They administer the Skills Development Fund.

What is the Office of Employer Initiatives of the Texas Workforce Commission?

500

Victoria

Golden Crescent WDA.

500

The percent of private sector employers who must be represented on a LWDB.

What is 51 percent?

500

TWIST

What is The Workforce Information System of Texas?