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Adds a WIOA purpose on digital equity, creates formula and competitive grants to expand digital workplace skills, and adds digital literacy to allowable WIOA training.
Official title: To amend the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act to establish a digital skills at work grant program.
Introduced December 3, 2025 by Eugene Simon Vindman · Last progress December 3, 2025
The bill substantially expands federally supported digital skills training and grants—improving access and targeting underserved jobseekers—while creating new federal spending and risks of uneven access, administrative burdens, and potential underfunding for non‑digital workforce needs.
Workers and jobseekers (current and incoming) will gain expanded access to digital skills training tied to in‑demand industries, improving employability and chances of higher-paying work.
States, postsecondary institutions, and eligible providers will receive federal support and policy priority to develop and deliver digital workplace training and strengthen workforce pipelines into good jobs.
Unemployed people and individuals with barriers (low education, low earnings, limited English) will get targeted funding and program priority for digital and information literacy, increasing their access to training that helps labor‑market entry.
Taxpayers and federal/state budgets will face new, potentially open‑ended spending obligations (FY2026–2030) that could increase federal budget pressure or require state matching or reallocation of funds.
Rural residents and low‑income learners will be left behind if reliable broadband and connectivity are not addressed alongside training, limiting their ability to access new digital programs.
State and local agencies and grant applicants will face increased administrative, reporting, and compliance burdens to apply for grants and meet performance/data requirements.
Based on analysis of 3 sections of legislative text.
Establishes a new federal grant program under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act to expand digital workplace skills and advance digital equity. The bill adds a purpose to WIOA to prioritize building digital skills across postsecondary, adult education, and workforce systems, creates formula and competitive grants administered by the Department of Labor (with Education and Commerce consultation), and adds digital and information literacy to allowable WIOA training services.