Empowering Change: How an Initiative in New Mexico is Redefining Workforce Equity

America needs a dynamic and inclusive workforce system equipped to address long-standing structural inequities in the labor market. In May 2023, the National Skills Coalition (NSC) launched the Creating an Equitable and Resilient Workforce System campaign with a discussion brief titled New Ideas for the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act that offered recommendations and reforms to our national funded public workforce system. This NSC blogpost focuses on one of the proposed reforms, which emphasizes incorporating workers’ voices into state workforce systems, plans, and strategies. This blogpost highlights the New Mexico Work Equity Initiative as an example.