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Gov. Cooper Proposes Historic Investments in Education, Economic Development, and Workforce Without Raising Taxes
Published: Monday, March 20th, 2023 @ 9:37 am
By: Governor's Office
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The Beaufort County Affordable Workforce Housing Development Taskforce will meet on Tuesday, March 14, 2023 at 6:00 PM in the boardroom located at 136 W. 2nd St, Washington, NC 27889.
Published: Saturday, March 18th, 2023 @ 4:35 pm
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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North Carolina leaders are projecting shortages in direct care workers, nurses and other caregiving positions in the coming decade. At the same time, demand for these services is rising.
Published: Saturday, March 11th, 2023 @ 2:59 pm
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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Must colleges prepare their students “emotionally” to join the workforce?
Published: Wednesday, March 1st, 2023 @ 11:25 pm
By: James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
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As the Golden LEAF Foundation enters the second year of a five-year strategic plan, the Foundation continues its work funding strategies to improve the economic conditions of North Carolina’s rural and tobacco-dependent communities.
Published: Wednesday, March 1st, 2023 @ 7:04 pm
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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More than $743 Million in NC Child Care Stabilization Grants have been distributed to over 4,300 Child Care Centers Statewide
Published: Friday, December 9th, 2022 @ 3:07 am
By: Governor's Office
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In a groundbreaking affirmative action program aimed at diversifying its workforce, Starbucks has hired its first and only straight white cis-male barista.
Published: Friday, November 11th, 2022 @ 9:21 pm
By: Babylon Bee
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Local workforce development boards will use funds to help jobseekers, small businesses
Published: Sunday, November 6th, 2022 @ 8:40 am
By: Governor's Office
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Following a roller coaster of negotiations and threats of legal action, Elon Musk is now at the final stretch of acquiring Twitter. With this purchase, Musk has announced plans to reduce Twitter's workforce to only 280 characters.
Published: Thursday, November 3rd, 2022 @ 8:17 am
By: Babylon Bee
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Golden LEAF’s mission is to increase economic opportunity in North Carolina’s rural, tobacco-dependent, and economically distressed communities through leadership in grantmaking, collaboration, innovation, and stewardship as an independent and perpetual foundation.
Published: Tuesday, September 27th, 2022 @ 12:47 pm
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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This week, U.S. Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Congresswomen Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE) and Young Kim (R-CA) introduced the bipartisan and bicameral National Nursing Workforce Center Act
Published: Wednesday, September 21st, 2022 @ 5:57 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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The Rivers East Workforce Development Board will meet on Wednesday, September 14, 2022 at 3:00pm.
Published: Thursday, September 8th, 2022 @ 9:23 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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In June 2020, the Golden LEAF Board of Directors awarded 10 projects totaling $3.49 million through the Golden LEAF Opportunities for Work (GLOW) initiative.
Published: Thursday, August 25th, 2022 @ 9:00 pm
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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As unemployment remained at low levels in June, the portion of American adults participating in the job market remains far below pre-recession levels, according to a Friday news release from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Published: Wednesday, July 20th, 2022 @ 7:46 am
By: Daily Wire
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According to the Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina (EDPNC), more than 1,400 short-term, occupational skill training courses are offered across the state to train, retrain, and upgrade workers for current or future job skill requirements or certifications.
Published: Monday, June 27th, 2022 @ 11:10 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Washington, N.C. – ECU Health, in partnership with the Rivers East Workforce Development Board and NCWorks, will host a series of hiring events including both virtual and in-person job fairs in the months of July and August.
Published: Thursday, June 23rd, 2022 @ 11:07 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services released two funding opportunities to award a total of $6,000,000 for tuition scholarships to improve behavioral health outcomes and substance use disorder treatment across the state.
Published: Saturday, June 11th, 2022 @ 3:30 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Six employers in the region served by Cleveland Community College have forecasted the need for at least 160 new heavy equipment operator job openings over the next five years.
Published: Friday, April 29th, 2022 @ 6:24 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Rivers East Workforce Development Board has been awarded a National Dislocated Worker Grant (NDWTG) in the amount of $275,000 to assist the employees of the QVC Rocky Mount Distribution Center that reside in the Rivers East region.
Published: Wednesday, March 23rd, 2022 @ 10:01 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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On Thursday, March 24, 2022 from 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m., Vidant Health in partnership with the Rivers East Workforce Development Board and NCWorks will host a Virtual Job Fair featuring Certified Nursing Assistant I & 2 job openings.
Published: Saturday, March 19th, 2022 @ 6:45 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Rivers East Workforce Development Board will meet on Wednesday, March 9, 2022 at 3:00pm.
Published: Thursday, March 3rd, 2022 @ 11:41 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Golden LEAF Foundation awards funds to provide scholarships for both high school and community college transfers entering a four-year college or university in North Carolina as well as for rural students attending community college in North Carolina.
Published: Friday, August 27th, 2021 @ 11:45 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Unemployed people who get a job would receive a one-time bonus of $1,500 under legislation spearheaded by Republicans in the N.C. General Assembly.
Published: Tuesday, June 8th, 2021 @ 7:31 am
By: Carolina Journal
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New Product Lines Drive $15.5 Million Expansion
Published: Friday, February 19th, 2021 @ 8:23 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Sec. Machelle Sanders will transition from the Dept. of Administration to lead NC’s economic recruitment, workforce development efforts
Published: Tuesday, February 16th, 2021 @ 11:46 am
By: Governor's Office
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Today, the Golden LEAF Board of Directors awarded $2,099,350 for workforce training and infrastructure projects to support economic growth in rural areas of the state.
Published: Friday, February 5th, 2021 @ 3:24 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows
Published: Monday, January 25th, 2021 @ 11:44 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, Governor Roy Cooper announced that a coding education initiative, an auto repair and tire shop, and four individual North Carolinians have won NCWorks Awards of Distinction.
Published: Sunday, October 25th, 2020 @ 9:13 pm
By: Governor's Office
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To empower our civil servants to best help others, the government must always operate more efficiently and more securely.
Published: Saturday, October 24th, 2020 @ 9:12 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The low-wage workforce imported by the companies killed many middle-class jobs from the early 1980s — and raised injury rates among the disposable migrant workers.
Published: Monday, July 13th, 2020 @ 11:27 am
By: Beaufort Observer Editorial Team
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The Department of Homeland Security and its dedicated workforce across more than a dozen offices and components have been working diligently with the White House to execute an unprecedented, whole-of America response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Published: Tuesday, June 30th, 2020 @ 11:52 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Department of Homeland Security and its dedicated workforce across more than a dozen offices and components are working diligently with the White House to execute an unprecedented, whole-of America response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Published: Monday, April 13th, 2020 @ 3:55 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The world’s workforce pipeline pulses with top talent, yet American education remains mired in mediocrity.
Published: Monday, January 13th, 2020 @ 11:25 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Today, one year since the creation of the Finish Line Grants program, Governor Roy Cooper announced that more than 1,700 Finish Line Grants have helped community college students complete their training and prepare to enter the workforce.
Published: Friday, July 12th, 2019 @ 1:16 am
By: Governor's Office
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