AI Literacy Across the Public Workforce System
The DOL AI Literacy Framework (TEN 07-25) directs state and local agencies to integrate AI literacy into WIOA services and other programs: assess regional AI adoption, embed literacy content in existing workshops and career navigation, equip staff to discuss AI with customers, and align content with regional industry needs through employer and provider partnerships.
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What TEN 07-25 says to you
The TEN is addressed to your leadership, state workforce agencies, administrators, liaisons, workforce board chairs and directors, labor commissioners, American Job Centers, ETA grantees. The framework's agency guidance: assess "how workers and employers in their region are adopting AI tools"; integrate literacy content "into existing workshops, orientations, or career navigation services"; work with local providers and employers to "align AI literacy content with regional industry needs"; "ensure staff are equipped to discuss AI tools with customers"; and use literacy to strengthen "re-employment, upskilling, and talent matching efforts." It explicitly contemplates integration "into Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) services and other programs", and TEGL 03-25 is the funding companion that encourages exactly that spending.
What it means for you
You are the framework's primary distribution channel, and the sequence matters: TEGL 03-25 (August 2025) opened the WIOA money; TEN 07-25 (February 2026) defined what the money should buy. Agencies aligning services now are doing exactly what the federal sequence intended. The operational gap is usually staff readiness (Principle 6, career counselors need their own AI literacy before they can guide customers) and procurement language (the 12 provisions are ready-made RFP evaluation criteria).
Your first five moves
(1) run a regional AI-adoption scan among employers and job seekers; (2) train American Job Center staff and career counselors first; (3) integrate literacy modules into existing workshops and orientations rather than creating parallel programs; (4) write the 12 provisions into your next training RFP as evaluation criteria; (5) document outcomes, WIOA reporting will increasingly ask.
The provisions that matter most to you
How GAGE serves you
Board and agency licensing: staff enablement first, because career counselors are the enabling layer the framework describes, then customer-facing seats. Team seats run $89, $69 and $49 a seat by volume, from 10 seats, with completion and evidence reporting you can export.
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Can WIOA funds pay for AI literacy training?
TEGL 03-25 (August 26, 2025) encourages states and local boards to use WIOA Title I youth, adult, and dislocated-worker funds, and governor's reserve monies, for AI skills development. TEN 07-25 provides the design framework for those programs.
Is the framework a compliance requirement for agencies?
No. It is voluntary guidance, but it is the federal design reference for the WIOA-funded AI programming TEGL 03-25 encourages.
Score what you have against the framework
Sixty checkpoints, twelve provisions, about twelve minutes, and a dated report you can put in front of whoever asks. Free, and the answers never leave your browser unless you ask for the report by email.
GAGE (Global Academy of Generative-AI Education) is a private education company, not affiliated with or endorsed by the U.S. Department of Labor. DOL does not certify or endorse training programs. Framework summaries are drawn from the public TEN 07-25 document. Read TEN 07-25 on dol.gov. Last verified: August 20, 2026.
Last verified against the DOL source: August 20, 2026. What changed