C3 · Pillar C · Growth Acceleration
Workforce reskilling and lifelong learning
A Federal Workforce Account for every adult: a $5,000 opening credit and $1,000 annual top-ups, usable at approved providers for labor-market-responsive courses, with employer co-investment and mid-career conversion programs. Individual choice, not a government training monopoly.
- 10-year fiscal
- +$500B costInvestment
- Implementation
- Years 1–20
- Middle class
- Strongly positive
- Planetary
- Modestly positive
$400B–$650B · Medium confidence
Universal eligibility, with particular benefit to mid-career workers facing displacement.
Enables transition into clean-energy and resilience occupations.
Global precedent
Singapore SkillsFuture; France’s Compte Personnel de Formation.
Lead mechanism
Department of Labor; Department of Education.
Bipartisan framing
Conservative case
Individual mobility and labor-market matching through personal accounts.
Progressive case
Workforce-development investment and protection against disruption.
Figures in this framework are illustrative directional estimates derived from publicly available data and conventional Congressional Budget Office budget-window logic. They are not official CBO scores. Any provision adopted from this framework would require formal CBO scoring before legislative consideration. This document is a policy white paper, not an introduced bill.