Michigan's No Worker Left Behind: Lessons Learned from Big-Picture Workforce Policy Change

This report was authored through the National Skills Coalition and provides information on Michigan’s No Worker Left Behind Initiative. The Initiative refocused Michigan’s workforce development strategy from quickly placing workers into jobs to a system that focuses on long-term training for workers in areas with a high demand for certain skills. In the three years since the program’s inception, 150,000 Michigan workers have been trained to work in higher-demand industries. Authors offer the keys to success for this program for other states to use as a model for replication.