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As part of STEM East’s Industry in Schools Week, Beaufort County Community College (Beaufort CCC) hosted high school students for two hands-on career exploration events on April 11 and April 16, showcasing career opportunities in both aviation and skilled trades.
Published: Saturday, June 28th, 2025 @ 10:03 am
By: Attila Nemecz
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is committed to developing a more skilled and satisfied caregiver workforce to improve the quality of care and support available to people with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (I/DD)
Published: Thursday, February 15th, 2024 @ 9:59 am
By: ENC NOW
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To be a White House press secretary, you need to be a skilled liar.
Published: Sunday, October 23rd, 2022 @ 9:32 pm
By: Daily Wire
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As the need for a highly skilled workforce increases, North Carolina community colleges are at the forefront of providing the training needed to fill this demand.
Published: Saturday, March 26th, 2022 @ 1:46 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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With industry need for more skilled workers, Surry County Schools knew one untapped workforce training market was high school students.
Published: Friday, January 28th, 2022 @ 9:31 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, Governor Roy Cooper issued an Executive Order returning regulatory authority for skilled nursing facilities to the Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS).
Published: Tuesday, July 28th, 2020 @ 9:34 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) will partner with Omnicare, a CVS Health company, to make facility-wide testing available to residents and staff in all North Carolina skilled nursing facilities.
Published: Tuesday, June 30th, 2020 @ 2:55 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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A sense of urgency has taken hold of higher education leaders nationwide. Reports of declining community college graduation rates and the lack of skilled workers have led policymakers and college leaders to sound the alarm
Published: Friday, November 22nd, 2019 @ 2:44 am
By: Carolina Journal
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In the 1969 parody Support Your Local Sheriff!, James Garner plays a skilled but somewhat-disreputable gunslinger who stumbles his way into the job of sheriff in a Colorado frontier town
Published: Monday, April 2nd, 2018 @ 1:43 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Some things are clear - lower taxes, fewer regulations, skilled workers, and efficient infrastructure lead to economic growth
Published: Monday, April 3rd, 2017 @ 5:42 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A while back I wrote a post on beer snobs, and now here is the follow up piece on Guitar snobs.
Published: Tuesday, January 17th, 2017 @ 6:45 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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During the period of apartheid in South Africa, all-white labor unions representing workers in the diamond mines were able to have put in place minimum wage laws for diamond mine workers
Published: Monday, December 26th, 2016 @ 8:33 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory attended the NCWorks Education and Workforce Leadership Summit in Greensboro today and spoke about North Carolina's accomplishments and goals in the areas of education and workforce development.
Published: Wednesday, October 28th, 2015 @ 3:22 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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The answer is obvious. It's a minimum wage increase that prices competition out of the market while exempting companies with a unionized work force.
Published: Friday, August 21st, 2015 @ 4:19 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Typesetting is almost a thing of the past but it was a very skilled vocation for many years.
Published: Tuesday, August 18th, 2015 @ 8:12 am
By: Bobby Tony
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"We must raise the minimum wage." That is one mantra emanating from progressives across the country and here in North Carolina.
Published: Saturday, January 24th, 2015 @ 7:33 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Progressives everywhere are calling for an increase in the minimum wage. The amount of the increase depends on who is calling for it. President Obama wants a 40 percent hike from the current minimum of $7.25 to $10.30 per hour, while others, including some trade unions, are asking for more than a...
Published: Monday, January 5th, 2015 @ 12:32 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Progressives everywhere are calling for an increase in the minimum wage. (For a look at the progressive movement's historical support for the minimum wage see this article.) The amount of the increase depends on who is calling for it. President Obama wants a 40 percent hike from the current...
Published: Saturday, December 13th, 2014 @ 8:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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If it were to succeed, the campaign to hike - or worse, double - the minimum wage would have serious negative repercussions for the young, least skilled, and least employable. Previous newsletters have explored in depth this well-known negative policy consequence. It's one of the issues about...
Published: Thursday, October 23rd, 2014 @ 7:54 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The state of Washington has the highest minimum wage in the country at $9.32 an hour. Consequently, the state has the third highest teenage unemployment rate in the country at 30.6 percent. This is almost 10 percentage points higher than the national average of about 21 percent.
Published: Friday, June 13th, 2014 @ 9:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In his State of the Union address, President Obama proposed raising the minimum wage from its current $7.25 per hour to $10.10 per hour, a 40 percent increase. A number of dumb arguments have been made both for and against the increase.
Published: Wednesday, February 26th, 2014 @ 11:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I started my college experience while working full-time as a systems/network administrator in Anchorage, Alaska, where I was born and raised. This came about because, while in high school, I developed an interest in building and programming computers. I became skilled enough to...
Published: Saturday, May 4th, 2013 @ 1:00 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Since taking office as your Lieutenant Governor, I have worked extensively on the intersection of jobs and education and to prepare today's students for skilled jobs of the future.
Published: Tuesday, April 24th, 2012 @ 7:21 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Clyde L. Sutton, 88, formerly of Woodland Circle, Hertford, died Monday afternoon, Nov. 7, 2011, in Chowan Hospital Skilled Nursing Facility.
Published: Wednesday, November 9th, 2011 @ 4:37 pm
By: Announcements
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