Jobs First 2025 results release

Citation

Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz). “Governor Newsom’s statewide Jobs First investments created more than 61,000 jobs, trained more than 142,000 workers in 2025.” Press release, February 3, 2026. https://business.ca.gov/governor-newsoms-statewide-jobs-first-investments-created-more-than-61000-jobs-trained-more-than-142000-workers-in-2025/. Copy: raw/shared/2026-10-29 Jobs First 2025 results release.md (original: .html beside it). Read 2026-10-29.

In 2025, California Jobs First invested nearly $1.6 billion across the 13 regions. The state says it trained more than 142,000 workers and helped create more than 61,000 jobs.
The training money runs through existing state programs: the Employment Training Panel, apprenticeships and High Road Training Partnerships.

The program began in 2021 as a statewide planning process, and became California Jobs First in 2023 (para. “Bold vision, realized locally”).

“investing nearly $1.6 billion in 2025 across all 13 economic regions” (What you need to know)
“the nearly $1.6 billion in investments from 2025 that went to train more than 142,000 workers and help create more than 61,000 new jobs across California’s 13 economic regions.” (para. 1)
“each region launching a planning body — or collaborative — with representation from a wide variety of community partners” (Bold vision, realized locally)
Employment Training Panel: “In 2025, the panel invested over $82 million through 299 contracts with California businesses to support the training of 70,544 workers.” (Employment Training Panel)
Apprenticeships: DIR and DAS “awarded over $91 million in 2025 to expand apprenticeship opportunities, benefiting more than 69,000 apprentices and pre-apprentices.” (Apprenticeships)
High Road Training Partnerships: “$18.5 million” to train “over 3,100 workers”, focused on “the strategic sectors in their region(s)”. (HRTP)
Quantum California, launched November 2025, is “a new statewide initiative uniting government, academia and industry to accelerate quantum innovation”. (Bet sector investments)
2025 saw “the release of the Master Plan for Career Education”. (Strengthening Workforce Alignment)
Quotes from GO-Biz Director Dee Dee Myers and LWDA Secretary Stewart Knox. (para. 10, 11)

A press release. It reports totals and does not give the method behind the job and training counts.

Source file: wiki/sources/Jobs First 2025 results release.md, updated 2026-10-29.