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Numbers could be pointing to a "soft landing," says a Kenan Institute economist after the release of the October employment data. Meanwhile, job openings in the Triangle jumped up this week, according to WRAL TechWire's exclusive jobs report. Take a look at the numbers.

Ohio was nearly the worst state to pay unemployed workers in a timely manner during the first year of the pandemic, according to a report by the U.S. Department of Labor's Inspector General.

The governors office said the state will appeal the ruling: "There is a record number of jobs available right now, and this program is making it harder to fill them and fully reopen our businesses. Its hurting our recovery across every region and industry. The state is appealing todays ruling." Hogan tweeted at 2:40 p.m.: "Even President Biden has said that states have every right to do whats best for our economies. Im confident the courts will rule in favor of getting Marylanders back to work,...

May 21—Republican leaders in the state House of Representatives asked Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Thursday to do away with a supplemental $300-a-week federal employment benefit to encourage jobless New Mexicans to return to work. The Republican leaders asked the governor to rescind the extra $300 unemployed workers are receiving "as soon as possible" and create in its place what they called ...

FACING the threat to millions as furlough is ended, we hear about “job loss” every day, as workers — as a result of factors beyond their control — are thrown out of work, deprived of income and thrown into individual and collective community desperation and deprivation.  “Job loss” is a weasel term. We might as well refer to wilful murder as “life loss.”  It’s a term which avoids responsibility or guilt for the crime and presents disaster as an unfortunate but largely normal...

Impoverished families it reaches up into the middle class and frankly that is a feature not above. thats an attractive part of this program. its not as perfectly targeted if youre in that income tax credit but nothing wrong with lifting the wages of mc-income job earn s as well. it is true, some will be displaced. once those displaced workers get a new job, and they will, once they get a new job and they will, it will be a better job. >> i want to get both your big brains around this. the 500,00...

Of doing it because they would lose their health insurance is now able to do that, too. and switch and take a chance on creating jobs and growing the overall economy. >> i know so many examples, personally, that fit into that. holding on to this job just for the health insurance. >> this is a huge issue. and its a huge reason that it is hard to start a business often times in america. if your kid needs braces and youre in a corporate job and sufficient of a dental, you cant go out on the individ...

Creating jobs and growing the overall economy. >> i know so many examples, personally, that fit into that. holding on to this job just for the health insurance. >> this is a huge issue. and its a huge reason that it is hard to start a business often times in america. if your kid needs braces and youre in a corporate job and sufficient of a dental, you cant go out on the individual market and hope your family is going to be fine. i do want to back up quickly and say one broad thing. if youre a po...

New homes, broken hearts, baptisms, funerals, and every precious moment in between. i remember campaigning with him once in texas for then senator barack obama. we showed up at a hall, small border town with only a handful of voters to greet us. he didnt care. they were working folks that came out to support our candidate. uncle teddy got up and raised his hands and belted out -- [ speaking foreign language ] in a strong boston accent. the massachusetts song. uncle teddy at his best. whether a s...

Rights leaders struggles and obstacles the nation currently faces. >> if he were alive today, i believe he would remind us the unemployed worker can rightly challenge the excesses of wall street without demonizing all who work there. those with power and privilege will often decry any call for change as divisive. theyll say any challenge to the existing arrangements are unwise and destabilizing. dr. king understood that peace without justice was no peace at all. >> thousands of people gathered o...