Women's Bureau

What this funds

At the FY 2026 funding level of $23,000,000 and 20 FTE, the WB will continue to ensure full alignment with the President's priorities by addressing issues related to workforce shortages, closing the skills gap, and facilitating the development of employment supports, particularly those related to caregiving, that reduce the cost of living and put American families first. WB will use the Women in Apprenticeship and Nontraditional Occupations (WANTO) program to help achieve the President's goal of 1 million new active apprentices as well as the President's strategy to reindustrialize and Make America Skilled Again, dominate the Artificial Intelligence (AI) frontier, and reclaim control over the levers of national prosperity. A new focus this year will be high demand occupations with labor shortages in the advanced manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence (AI), construction, Information Technology (IT), mining, and shipbuilding industries. WB will also work on updating its National Database of Childcare Prices (NDCP). Originally funded under the first Trump Administration, the NDCP is the most comprehensive federal source of childcare prices at the county level. Beyond the NDCP, the WB will also continue its partnership with Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) to update the Leave and Job Flexibilities Module within the American Time Use Survey (ATUS). Both of these signature products are used widely by constituents, policymakers, and government representatives. WB will continue to explore new priority areas related to strengthening the American workforce and American families including evaluating strategies to recruit discouraged workers, including women, into industries with a labor force shortage, researching child care and paid leave options for small businesses, and examining regulatory and tax policy interventions to increase childcare affordability. This will include the production of formal policy memos as well as conducting listening sessions in collaboration with the Small Business Administration and the US Department of Health and Human Services. WB will continue coordinating a campaign designed to increase awareness of the paid family and medical leave (PFML) tax credit for employers made permanent by the Working Families Tax Cut Act. Lastly, the Women's Bureau will advance positive employment outcomes for military spouses and women veterans--critical communities whose contributions directly support our national defense, economic security, and future wellbeing. This work will be carried out in coordination with the Veterans' Employment and Training Service (VETS) at the U.S. Department of Labor and the Center for Women Veterans at the U.S. Department of Veterans DM - 62 WOMEN'S BUREAU Affairs, reinforcing our shared mission to enter the new Golden Age of America by strengthening every sector of the workforce.

Extracted from Departmental Management, p. 10. Verbatim; nothing here is paraphrased.

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