The N.C. Department of Commerce, Division of Workforce Solutions (DWS), didn’t design and implement procedures to ensure that federal funds tied to workforce programs were spent in accordance with program requirements and federal and state law.
Published: Wednesday, June 14th, 2023 @ 7:40 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Long-term care and rehabilitation facilities are eager to hire as vacancies in the healthcare field persist.
Published: Monday, December 19th, 2022 @ 6:17 pm
By: Attila Nemecz
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N.C. farmers question paying $14.16 an hour in the H-2A program compared to $12 an hour in neighboring South Carolina.
Published: Friday, October 14th, 2022 @ 8:00 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Agricultural leaders in Missouri and Kansas are pressing their senators to greenlight legislation that could help them with the current labor shortage.
Published: Tuesday, September 27th, 2022 @ 11:12 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The rate of COVID-19 infections is once again disproportionately impacting Black and Hispanic North Carolinians.
Published: Sunday, January 23rd, 2022 @ 9:54 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Beginning Oct. 4, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services' COVID-19 Support Services Program, along with the Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina will provide food assistance to North Carolinians in 34 counties
Published: Tuesday, November 9th, 2021 @ 12:05 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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COVID-19 Situation Update: August 11
Published: Tuesday, November 2nd, 2021 @ 1:32 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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COVID-19 Situation Update: August 4
Published: Sunday, October 31st, 2021 @ 2:22 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is expanding the COVID-19 Community Health Worker program, bringing it statewide.
Published: Friday, August 27th, 2021 @ 8:19 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Support Services Program will narrow its focus; North Carolinians will still receive needed support to address food insecurity
Published: Saturday, May 22nd, 2021 @ 5:07 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Through the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services’ COVID-19 Support Services Program, more than 35,000 households received relief payments, food, transportation to and from testing sites or additional supports to help them isolate or quarantine during the pandemic.
Published: Monday, March 29th, 2021 @ 11:59 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services will continue two programs that help North Carolinians access services such as relief payments, access to primary medical care, diagnostic testing, food and additional supports during the pandemic.
Published: Wednesday, January 27th, 2021 @ 7:49 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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President Donald J. Trump is taking action to temporarily pause immigration and protect American workers as we confront the coronavirus.
Published: Thursday, April 23rd, 2020 @ 3:23 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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U.S. Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Angus King (I-ME) sent a bipartisan, bicameral letter to Congressional Leadership urging them to provide a meaningful solution for the H-2B temporary guest worker program in any government funding agreement.
Published: Monday, January 28th, 2019 @ 12:46 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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U.S. Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Angus King (I-ME) and Congressmen Andy Harris (R-MD-01) and Bill Keating (D-MA-09) have led a bipartisan, bicameral group of 87 Members of Congress in sending a letter to the Secretaries of Homeland Security and Labor urging them to take immediate action
Published: Monday, May 15th, 2017 @ 2:14 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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With the passage of the recent Omnibus travesty, word leaked out that the legislation could QUADRUPLE the amount of guest worker visas issued per year.
Published: Wednesday, January 27th, 2016 @ 7:31 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Today, Senator Thom Tillis voted in support of the omnibus appropriations bill, which, in addition to keeping the federal government running, also boosts defense discretionary funding, provides much-needed pay raises for military personnel.
Published: Thursday, January 7th, 2016 @ 11:34 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Tea Partiers and other grassroots limited government types have been disappointed time and again by the Republican leaders on Capitol Hill they elected and elevated in 2010 and 2012.
Published: Monday, January 13th, 2014 @ 9:50 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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East Carolina University professor of anthropology David Griffith has taken his research abroad to study managed migration, the value of labor and its effects in Mexico, Guatemala, Canada and the United States.
Published: Thursday, June 6th, 2013 @ 9:13 am
By: ECU News Services
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