Recommendations for the Task Force on New Americans
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Highlights
The Task Force on New Americans should consider upgrading adult education and embedding equity in federal programs to better support immigrant integration.
- The Task Force on New Americans should lead reforms of adult education under WIOA, which has often underserved Limited English Proficient immigrants due to employment-focused performance metrics.
- Federal programs should use disaggregated Census data on educational attainment and English proficiency to better identify immigrant communities with the greatest barriers and tailor investments accordingly.
- The federal Departments of Education and Health and Human Services could expand two-generation models that link immigrant parents’ adult education with early childhood programs and exempt custodial parents in adult education from certain WIOA employment metrics.
In late 2022, the U.S. government launched the Task Force on New Americans (TFNA). Led by the White House’s Domestic Policy Council, the task force’s mission is to strengthen and coordinate federal, state, and local efforts to support the integration and inclusion of immigrants and refugees in U.S. communities.
MPI’s National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy (NCIIP) has long argued for the need to create such an office within the White House. To support the task force's work, NCIIP has developed a set of documents highlighting pressing integration issues and offering recommendations for how the task force can organize its focus to address them. To learn more about the task force and NCIIP's related work, click here.
The recommendations can be downloaded as a set or accessed by individual topic using the links below:
About the White House Task Force on New Americans project
Drawing on a strong body of work, NCIIP submitted recommendations covering language access, integration, early childhood education, K-12 education, and adult education and workforce development for the White House Task Force on New Americans relaunched in 2023.
About the National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy
The Center is a national hub connecting policymakers, educators, community leaders, and service providers with evidence-informed policy research, technical assistance, and data to advance effective immigrant integration at U.S., state, and local levels.
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