{
  "schemaVersion": 1,
  "deskKey": "GAO-26-107439:recommendation-1",
  "title": "Employment support for older workers",
  "page": "https://america.co/oversight/older-worker-employment-support",
  "selectedAction": "Recommendation 1",
  "actorType": "agency",
  "owner": "Secretary of Labor / Employment and Training Administration, with Education’s Rehabilitation Services Administration",
  "source": {
    "report": "GAO-26-107439",
    "url": "https://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-26-107439",
    "published": "2026-01-29",
    "publiclyReleased": "2026-01-29",
    "consulted": "2026-10-05",
    "statusInConsultedSource": "Open",
    "latestSelectedCommentAsOf": "2026-04"
  },
  "progressSummary": "GAO’s April 2026 comment says Labor planned to use WorkforceGPS or other capacity-building platforms to help spread promising practices. GAO said it would monitor progress. The source does not report the selected recommendation as implemented.",
  "annualContext": {
    "report": "GAO-26-108505",
    "url": "https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-26-108505",
    "published": "2026-05-12",
    "benefitType": "service-improvement",
    "estimateAsReported": "Not quantified in annual example",
    "timeHorizon": "No financial horizon supplied",
    "estimateAttribution": "GAO 2026 annual report",
    "scope": "Topic-level; not a price tag solely on the selected action",
    "basis": "The 2026 annual report connects this action to better management of fragmented programs and mission delivery. It provides no financial estimate for this example."
  },
  "boundary": "The study includes program-year 2023 data and interviews with 41 older workers at 10 centers in five states. Those interviews are not a representative national survey. Differences between age groups do not establish that a particular program caused the difference.",
  "evidenceToCloseSummary": "Evidence of an operating, coordinated information-sharing process that satisfies the recommendation—not just agreement with it or the existence of a website.",
  "proposedEvaluation": {
    "notOfficialProcedure": true,
    "test": "Ask a local job center to identify which practices it received, adopted, and assessed. Compare service access and employment outcomes for comparable participants, with accessibility, disability, and local labor-market context included.",
    "questions": [
      "Which practices reached local centers and when?",
      "Were older workers able to find and use the services?",
      "What outcome was measured beyond attendance at training sessions?"
    ]
  },
  "cashAvailable": false,
  "actualSavingsAsserted": false,
  "coverage": "One selected action; not every recommendation in the report",
  "compiler": "America.co public-resource desk; AI-assisted; no expert review claimed"
}