Specifications include, but are not limited to: The three hallmarks of WIOA include: 1. The needs of businesses and workers drive workforce solutions, and local boards are accountable for this within the communities they serve. 2. One-Stop Centers provide excellent customer–centric services and focus on continuous improvement; and, 3. The workforce system supports strong regional economies and plays an active role in community and workforce development. WIOA is built around the following key principles: • Increase access and opportunity, particularly for those individuals with barriers to employment, to ensure success in the labor market. • Support the alignment of workforce investment, education, and economic development systems in support of a comprehensive, accessible, and highquality workforce development system. • Improve the quality and labor market relevance of workforce investment, education, and economic development efforts to provide workers with the skills and credentials necessary to secure and advance in employment with family-sustaining wages, and to provide employers with the skilled workers they need to succeed in a global economy. • Promote improvement in the structure and delivery of services to better address the employment and skill needs of workers, jobseekers, and employers. • Increase the prosperity of workers and employers and the economic growth of communities, regions, and states, and the global competitiveness of the United States. • Provide workforce investment activities, through statewide and local workforce development systems, that increase the employment, retention and earnings of participants, and increase attainment of recognized postsecondary credentials by participants.