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What is the ARC?
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Employment and Training Administration (ETA) provides funding to states to ensure that locally held labor market information (LMI) data are maintained and stored efficiently and consistently to facilitate its effective use and sharing. States get grants to directly support their work toward this aim. But what is the standard they're trying to achieve? Who determines what the priorities are and how to structure them? These are complex questions that have answers that evolve as the available technology and data change. The Analyst Resource Center (ARC) is a group of state Labor Market Information staff who do this work on a day to day basis and who come together to set standards for the database.
What is the ARC?
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Employment and Training Administration (ETA) provides funding to states to ensure that locally held labor market information (LMI) data are maintained and stored efficiently and consistently to facilitate their effective use and sharing. States get grants to directly support work toward this goal. But what is the standard they're trying to achieve? Who determines what the priorities are and how to structure them? These are complex questions with answers that evolve as the available technology and data change. The Analyst Resource Center (ARC) is a group of state Labor Market Information staff who do this work on a day to day basis and who come together to set standards for the database.
ARC Structure
Members of the ARC come from staff of state LMI shops from across the country.
Minnesota's LMI Office manages the DOL ARC grant to coordinate this work. While the committee structure has changed over time with changing needs and priorities, the Structure Committee has remained consistent.
Structure Committee
The Structure Committee reviews and makes recommendations for updates or modifications to the database structure.
The Structure Committee collects feedback from state DBAs and discusses modifications to the WID structure based on feedback as well as changing demands under the WIG or WIOA.
Communication Committee
The Communication Committee identifies training and research priorities as well as communication opportunities. Committee members engage the states in their regions to ensure that ARC resources are useful and being used.
The chair of the committee serves as primary point of contact for ETA. Members of the committee serve as contacts for other federal and state projects such as Projections Central and GEOSol.