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Box 4-5. Using Technology to Help Workers: America’s Career KitAmerica’s Career Kit uses the Internet to offer innovative ways tohelp workers find jobs, help employers find workers, and providetimely and valuable information about the labor market to all stakeholders.The initiative is designed to help reduce the mismatchbetween worker skills and shifting employer requirements. America’sCareer Kit consists of the following four websites:• America’s Job Bank is an Internet site that lists both job openingsand resumes. With 6 million users each month, it is the Nation’slargest online labor exchange.• America’s Talent Bank allows job seekers to post their resumesonline, where potential employers can view them. A growing numbersof workers with information technology skills are using thisresource.• America’s Career InfoNet provides information for both prospectiveemployees and employers on employment trends, prevailingwages, and job training requirements. Data are also available onStates and localities.• America’s Learning Exchange is an electronic marketplace for trainingand education resources. As of January 2000, the exchangecounted 4,540 providers, 162,053 courses, and 42,968 programs.• Improved youth programs: The act will foster connections betweenacademic and occupational learning and provide activities geared towardyouth development. A youth council will be established under each localWorkforce Investment Board to improve coordination among organizationsthat serve young people. Given the mixed results of previous short-term trainingprograms, WIA will require 12-month follow-up services in its programs.The 2000 budget included $2.4 billion for the Universal Reemploymentinitiative. In a period of rapidly changing job demands, this program aims toprovide training and reemployment services to all dislocated workers who wantand need them. To this end, reemployment services will be targeted to unemploymentinsurance claimants in danger of exhausting their benefits, and fundingfor one-stop career centers will be increased. A new initiative will fund grantsto identify skill shortages and target resources to industries struggling to fill jobs.Finally, a new effort to encourage lifelong learning is taking shape through theLearning Anytime Anywhere Partnership program. This program supports partnershipsamong universities and colleges, businesses, community organizations,and other entities to use technology to address challenges in lifelong learningand postsecondary education.Chapter 4 | 163