; (3) provide economically and socially disadvantaged individuals (such as the long-term unemployed, people with criminal records, former foster youth, and other economically and socially disadvantaged populations) with the ability to gain job experience; (4) provide employers with new pathways into the workforce development system enabling them to have a greater role in the training and hiring of new workers and labor market re-entrants; and (5) allow for sufficient State flexibility to design programs targeted at community-specific workforce gaps and employer needs. (b) Definitions In this part: (1) Adult and dislocated worker employment and training activities The term adult and dislocated worker employment and training activities means adult and dislocated worker employment and training activities funded under chapter 3 of subtitle B of title I of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act. (2) Dislocated worker The term dislocated worker has the meaning given that term in section 3 of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act. (3) Eligible individual The term eligible individual means an individual who, on the basis of an assessment by the State, has been determined to be unlikely to find unsubsidized employment due to— (A) being an individual with a barrier to employment; (B) being a dislocated worker