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Houston hospitality industry struggles to hire workers amid high unemployment Published  Houston hospitality industry struggles to hire workers amid high unemployment The latest unemployment rate for Houston is eight-percent, which is more than double the number of people out of work compared to pre-pandemic numbers, according to Texas Workforce Solutions. So filling jobs should be easy. That is not the case in the hospitality industry. HOUSTON - Out of about ten thousand restaurants in the gr...

COVID-19 by the numbers New Mexico health officials yesterday reported 137 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the statewide total so far past 200,000: 200,037, to be exact. The health department has designated 185,249 of those cases as recovered. Among the 19 counties with reported new cases, Bernalillo County had 56, followed by San Juan County with 13 and Guadalupe County with 12. Santa Fe County had seven new cases. The state also announced three additional deaths; there have now been 4,108 fa...

2021-05-11-restaurants-need-workers-teens-need-summer-jobs. It's a good match according to Michelle Castro from Texas Workforce Solutions. She says a summer job is important.

By Natalie Alms May 12, 2021 Thanks to $2 billion in funding in the American Rescue Plan Act, states can start modernizing their legacy unemployment insurance benefits systems. State leaders, however, say that funding and federal involvement isnt enough. New Mexico modernized its UI system in 2013 and has tried to pursue continuous modernization and improvement since then, said Sue Anne Athens, CIO in New Mexicos Department of Workforce Solutions, at an event hosted by GovExec. Unfortunately, f...

One of Ted Turner's ranches in southern New Mexico will be the new home for a pair of Mexican gray wolves and their pups as federal wildlife managers look

Equifax Workforce Solutions Offers Mortgage Lenders "All Employers Within 36 Months" Verifications Through The Work Number Mortgage-specific employment verification dataset designed to help lenders solve for complex applicant income profiles News provided by Share this article Share this article ATLANTA, May 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Complex income situations on mortgage applications can create incremental work for mortgage bankers and brokers as they look to review and approve homebuyers for m...

By Natalie Alms   States appear poised to solve the problem of obsolete and buggy technology hindering the delivery of unemployment insurance benefits, thanks to $2 billion in funding in the American Rescue Plan Act. But state leaders say that funding and federal involvement isnt enough. "I think there is this vision that therell be a great modernized system that the feds can come up with," said Sue Anne Athens, CIO in New Mexicos Department of Workforce Solutions, at an event hosted by GovEx...

Hearth & Home earns honor Hearth & Home Technologies Lake City manufacturing facility was recognized as one of the areas 2021 Best Places to work in southeast Minnesota. This is the ninth time the location has won this honor. Hearth & Home Technologies was one of 15 organizations representing Dodge, Fillmore, Freeborn, Goodhue, Houston, Mower, Olmstead, Rice, Steele, Wabasha, and Winona counties chosen as a recipient of the Workforce Development’s 2021 Best Places to Work award out of 4...

Two students in the area are National Merit $2,500 Scholarship winners. They are Sara O. Abul-Khoudoud, of Russell High School, and Benjamin L. Woodard of Kenova, West Virginia, who is homeschooled. The 2,500 Merit Scholar designees were chosen from a talent pool of 16,000 finalists in the 2021 National Merit Scholarship Program. National Merit $2500 Scholarship winners are the finalists in each state judged to have the strongest combination of accomplishments, skills and potential for success ...

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – The U.S. Department of Labor reported last week that nationwide unemployment has now hit the lowest point since the COVID-19 pandemic began in March 2020. Around 498,000 Americans filed unemployment claims in the last week of April, down by 92,000 from the previous week. North Carolina saw new claims drop by about 3,440 in the same period. But that doesn’t mean the pandemic recession is over. North Carolina is still tens of thousands of jobs short of where the state...