In a sideline conversation at the Scoop News Group-produced Workday Federal Forum<\/a> in Washington, D.C., DOL Chief Innovation Officer Taylor Stockton told FedScoop that the agency has done a lot of work so far on data collection for the hub.<\/p>\n The AI Action Plan assigns DOL the job of leading a collaborative effort on the hub\u2019s production with the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Department of Commerce\u2019s Census Bureau and Bureau of Economic Analysis. Recruiting data-rich private-sector partners has also been a top priority, Stockton said.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s incredible data that\u2019s out there in the private sector that really has leading indicators on the changes that are being seen in the economy,\u201d he added. \u201cAnd I think we\u2019re encouraged, because a lot of these companies have never shared data publicly or at the federal government in this way.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n The AI hub will feature recurring analyses and actionable insights meant to inform workforce and education policy, per the AI Action Plan. It will also conduct scenario planning for \u201ca range of potential AI impact levels,\u201d the document stated.<\/p>\n If all goes as planned with DOL\u2019s one-stop-shop for government and industry data, Stockton believes the end result will be a hub that serves as \u201cthe central source of truth for how AI is impacting work.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI think part of what we see right now in the societal narrative is there\u2019s a lot of speculation of what AI may do,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd we think there\u2019s tremendous value in grounding the conversation in the empirical evidence of what we\u2019re actually seeing in the economy when it comes to AI adoption, productivity impacts, increases or decreases in demand for different jobs, [and] different skills.\u201d<\/p>\n Though he couldn\u2019t put a specific date on the hub\u2019s introduction, Stockton said the Labor Department is coordinating \u201cdirectly\u201d with the White House on the launch and views it as a \u201csuper big initiative\u201d for the agency. DOL wants to \u201cmake sure that that public launch is as impactful as possible,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n When the workforce hub does make its public debut, it\u2019ll be following a handful of other AI or data-related projects introduced by the Labor Department in recent months. The agency unveiled an open data portal<\/a> in February that pulls together 42 datasets<\/a> spanning everything from unemployment insurance claims to county-level childcare prices.<\/p>\n The agency this year has also released an AI literacy framework<\/a>, teamed with the National Science Foundation on workforce development efforts<\/a> linked to artificial intelligence, and pledged to integrate AI skills into registered apprenticeships<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThe mandate that we have in DOL,\u201d Stockton said on stage Tuesday, \u201cis to say, \u2018how do we make sure that all Americans have the AI literacy skills, the apprenticeships and other job training pathways, the rapid re-skilling programs in place, such that no matter where and how AI transforms all of these different industries and occupations, American workers have the supports and pathways to having more paths to the American dream?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Bipartisan groups of lawmakers, meanwhile, have pressed the Trump administration for more information about AI\u2019s impact<\/a> on the workforce. Others have pushed for federal AI policy to take on a labor-centric approach<\/a>. Some experts have expressed skepticism that the White House\u2019s AI Action Plan truly follows a worker-first agenda<\/a>.<\/p>\n Stockton told FedScoop that when it comes to the buildout of the AI workforce hub, labor unions are a \u201creally important stakeholder\u201d that the agency considers in all of its work.<\/p>\n \u201cWe believe that all stakeholders need to be at the table, including labor unions,\u201d he said. \u201cWe certainly are going to continue to engage them, to make sure that we think about how AI can improve the livelihoods of American workers.\u201d<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\tWritten by Matt Bracken![\"Matt](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1777412533_207_20241226_1955-2-e1735831211584.jpg\")
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\n\t\t\tMatt Bracken is the editor in chief of FedScoop. Before joining Scoop News Group in 2023, Matt worked in various editing, reporting and digital roles at Morning Consult, The Baltimore Sun and the Arizona Daily Star. You can reach him on Signal at MattBracken.33 or email him at matt.bracken@scoopnewsgroup.com.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Department of Labor aims to unveil its AI workforce hub in \u201cthe coming months,\u201d an agency official…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,1380,25,111,14494,4028,14495,1381,14496,1382],"class_list":["post-20687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ai","tag-ai","tag-ai-action-plan","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","tag-bureau-of-economic-analysis","tag-bureau-of-labor-statistics","tag-census-bureau","tag-department-of-labor","tag-labor-department","tag-trump-ai-action-plan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}