On July 23, 2025, the White House released America’s AI Action Plan, a national framework to guide artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure initiatives and federal policymaking across a range of priority initiatives, including workforce development and education.
“Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence” details the Plan’s approach to fostering the development and growth of the AI sector, describing the vital and includes this text, “Counties recognize the pivotal role that AI is playing in the growth of the American economy, and are carefully integrating AI into public services.
“Counties must have a meaningful consultative role in shaping how AI policies affect local communities. As the implementers of many federal programs and the providers of essential local services, counties have unique expertise in understanding both the opportunities and challenges of AI deployment at the local level.
“Counties look forward to working as intergovernmental partners to build AI infrastructure, develop a workforce skilled in AI and ensure cybersecurity is top of mind as we leverage AI to support our residents and strengthen our communities.”
On September 5, 2025, a NACo post highlighted an August 26th USDOL training and employment guidance letter, encouraging and advising states and localities to use WIOA Title 1 Youth, Adult, and Dislocated Worker programs to provide AI literacy training, integrate AI learning into existing programs, and create AI skills-development programs.
As the largest single source of federal funding for workforce-development services, WIOA is a vital source that supports County WDBs—in partnership with contracted service providers like KRA—in tacking and overcoming challenges facing employers that support our nation’s un- and under-employed jobseekers.
For 25+ years, KRA has operated Title 1 programs for multiple County Boards in California, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, Ohio, Illinois, et al, and is proud to endorse NACo’s position that supports “fully and adequately funding the public workforce system, including digital-literacy programming to advance workforce readiness, educational attainment, telehealth access and technological confidence.”