Research

Every publicly identifiable program approval, from state submission to federal decision, every row cited. There is no federal registry; this is the record the government does not keep.

Eligible occupation lists as states publish them (30 states and counting), each verified against primary documents and mapped to the programs and institutions positioned to qualify.

A degree student's job search is her own. A Workforce Pell completer's is the program's accountability event. Four things that difference changes — time, scope, success, evidence — and why the existing stack, and application volume, don't answer them. Companion to What the Evidence Says.

All 5,579 postings behind North Carolina's 43 certified programs, read against four decades of placement trials. 134 jobs on screen, 38 actionable today, 30 more at the credential — and seven evidence-backed elements of a placement program. The market reading behind the placement system.

Enter a program's state, CIP code, and duration — get four sourced answers in one click: the federal duration window, what your state has published, the occupations your program maps to under the crosswalks that matter in your state, and the selection criteria your state applies. Program and occupation autocomplete included; every claim dated and linked to its primary source. No login, no email. It documents; it does not decide.

Federal law sets the box, the state determines eligibility, and the college makes the claim — but the risk sits almost entirely on one side. A map of where each decision is made, and why the qualifying year, the occupation match, and the 2029 placement test compound rather than cancel. Every provision cited to 34 CFR part 690.

The companion read to the Program Screener: six questions on whether a program can realistically pursue Workforce Pell. Four track requirements a reviewer verifies directly — the screener checks those. Two are never tested at approval, and those two decide whether a certified program survives its outcome measurement years. Cited to 34 CFR part 690.

Which occupations are changing fastest: the duties employers now require that the federal O*NET standard doesn't describe, ranked by independently verified duty clusters per occupation. Built from our national sweep of job postings across U.S. metro areas, every duty sentence compared against the federal task standard and every signal confirmed by multiple employers in multiple metros.