Immigrants and WIOA Services: Comaprison of Sociodemographic Characteristics of Native and Foreign-Born Adults in the United States.

Sincs 1990, roughly 1 million foreign-born individuals have settled in the United States per year, many with needs for adult education and workforce training services. Implementation of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA)-federal legislation that provides the framework for provision of adult education and workforce services across the United States via a federal-state partnership-stands to play a critical role in supporting the upward mobility of these immigrants and refugees in the workforce and their successful integration into the civic life of the cities and states where they have settled.