• Electric Vehicle Workforce: Published by the S.C. Department of Employment and Workforce in partial fulfillment of Executive Order 2022-31 by Gov. Henry McMaster, this report is the Evaluation and Analysis of the Electric Vehicle Workforce in South Carolina.
• 2023 SC Tech Strategic Plan -- SC Competes: SC Tech is an initiative of the South Carolina Council on Competitiveness. It was established with the mission to accelerate growth & innovation while providing a unified voice for the statewide technology community by developing a strong 21st Century workforce, supporting entrepreneurs, connecting peers and decision-makers, and establishing South Carolina as a global hub for innovation.
• State Plan for Perkins V: The Perkins State Plans and Data Explorer is designed to provide career and technical education (CTE) practitioners, researchers, and stakeholders, with ready access to information and data submitted by States in their Perkins V State plans, covering FY 2020-2023, and Consolidated Annual Reports (CARs), pursuant to the Strengthening Career and Technical Education Act (Perkins V) and its predecessor Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 (Perkins IV).
• Unified State Plan: The Unified State Plan provides a systemwide approach for statewide education and workforce development to streamline and unify the efforts of entities involved throughout the state. It is the comprehensive strategic plan for education and workforce development.
• Workforce Innovation Opportunity Act (WIOA) Annual Report: WIOA is designed to help jobseekers access employment, education, training and support services to succeed in the labor market, and to match employers with the skilled workers they need to compete in the global economy. This annual report is produced by the S.C. Department of Employment and Workforce.
• For Our Future: South Carolina’s Birth through Five Plan: Published by the South Carolina Early Childhood Advisory Council, a collaborative body consisting of eight state agencies and statewide organizations, this five-year strategic plan provides a comprehensive framework for enhancing the state’s early childhood system.

• Life Sciences Industry 2022 - SCbio: The Economic Impact of South Carolina's Life Sciences Industry.
• Logistics Industry 2023 - SC Competes : South Carolina has become a logistics hub of the Southeast, fueled by a $48.3 billion economic impact, 150,160 jobs, and growing population. The 2023 SC Logistics looks at the impact of the state’s supply chain logistics cluster and its growth since 2020.
• Manufacturing Extension Partnership - SCMEP: All companies that engage in projects with SCMEP are surveyed to demonstrate both quantitative and qualitative impacts. These impacts convey how we help improve performance and achieve goals. Measured quarterly, and reported annually, client companies are surveyed by NIST through an independent third party organization.
• Manufacturing 2021 - SC Manufacturers Alliance and SC Future Makers: 2021 Economic Impact of Manufacturing in South Carolina.
• Military Community 2022 - SC Department of Veterans Affairs: The Economic Impact of South Carlina's Military Community, A Statewide and Regional Analysis, June 2022.
• Ports Authority 2023 - SC Ports: 2023 Economic Impact of the South Carolina Ports Authority Statewide and Regional Analysis.

Terminology

• South Carolina Education and Workforce Dictionary

Education

• 2023 Employment Outcomes for South Carolina Post-Secondary Graduates Report
• Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes Explorer: United States Census Bureau
• Research on kindergarten readiness and child care from SC First Steps
• Pre-K Dashboard from Education Oversight Committee: Who is ready for kindergarten; Where can we do more?
• K-12 School Report Cards
• K-12 Proficiency by per pupil expenditures from Education Oversight Committee
• K-12 Education Funding Dashboard and Reports from the Office of Revenue and Fiscal Affairs
• Post-high school direct to college/persistence, top majors, etc. from Education Oversight Committee
• Higher Education Analytics, Data & Reports
• Education Matchmaker Dashboard

Workforce

• readySC: A division of the SC Technical College System that promotes economic development in South Carolina by providing customized recruiting and training solutions to companies bringing new jobs to the state through relocation or expansion.
• US Bureau of Labor Statistics: South Carolina

Other

• Population, housing, and socioeconomic data from the Office of Revenue and Fiscal Affairs
• Office of Revenue and Fiscal Affairs data and research presentations

• Statewide Education and Workforce Development Act: It seeks to coordinate, align, and enhance all publicly funded workforce development services and centralize oversight of the entities that provide these services to enhance accountability, enhance transparency, and promote a customer-centric workforce system so that the opportunities available through it are easy to access, highly effective, and simple to understand, and to provide a mechanism to marshal workforce development resources and services to meet the immediate and future needs of specialized industry workforce demands and economic development commitments of this State and in specific areas of the State.

Find Your Future South Carolina is a collaborative campaign of the Coordinating Council for Workforce Development (CCWD), a council of more than 30 organizations, government agencies and representatives, businesses, and partners. The CCWD is working to improve the coordination of education and workforce development efforts in South Carolina. 

To view a complete organizational overview of the CCWD, click here.

Member Agencies

• Anderson 1 & 2 Career and Technology Center
• Department of Commerce
• Education Oversight Committee
• Kershaw County School District
• Labor, Licensing, and Regulation
• Lander University
• Manufacturing Extension Partnership
• Medical University of South Carolina
• Revenue and Fiscal Affairs
• SC Department of Agriculture
• SC Department of Employment and Workforce
• SC Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism
• SC Department of Veterans Affairs
• SC House of Representatives
• SC Department of Revenue
• SC Research Authority
• SC Senate
• State Technical College System
• State Workforce Development Board
• South Carolina First Steps
• Tri-County Technical College
• Upstate Workforce Development Board
• Vocational Rehabilitation Department
• ZF Transmissions

Annual Reports

• Coordinating Council for Workforce Development 2024 Annual Report
• Coordinating Council for Workforce Development 2023 Annual Report

Education and Workforce Dictionary

• South Carolina Education and Workforce Dictionary