"...one of the best, but most underreported, bipartisan achievements of the Clinton era: the Workforce Investment Act... The Act brought together and energized all the Government's job-training programs, including individual training accounts that workers can use for any training they believe will most advance their job opportunities, one-stop centers for every job-training program and an increase in youth training programs by $1.2 billion over five years."

Thomas L. Friedman
The New York Times Magazine, March 28, 1999

"The Workforce Investment Act, more than five years in the making, will rework the nation's job-training system, empowering individuals to acquire the skills they need in the new economy. It consolidates 60 separate federal programs into three block grants, with considerable flexibility for the states... Workers who will never know the names of these legislators are in their debt."

David Broder
The Washington Post, August 5, 1998