Specifications include, but are not limited to: WIOA has six main purposes: 1. Increase access to and opportunities for employment, education, training, and support services for individuals, particularly those with barriers to employment. 2. Support the alignment of workforce investment, education, and economic development systems in support of a comprehensive, accessible, and high-quality workforce development system. 3. Improve the quality and labor market relevance of workforce investment, education and economic development efforts. 4. Promote improvement in the structure and delivery of services. 5. Increase the prosperity of workers and employers. 6. Provide workforce development activities that increase employment, retention, and earnings of participants and that increase post-secondary credential attainment and as a result, improvesthe quality of the workforce, reduces welfare dependency, increases economic self-sufficiency, meets skills requirement of employers, and enhances productivity and competitiveness of the nation. • Help more people find and keep jobs that lead to economic self-sufficiency, with a focus on disadvantaged populations. • Close skill gaps for employers with a focus on in-demand industry sectors and occupations, including through apprenticeships. • Work together as a single, seamless team.