OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) â Oklahoma will end a $300-a-week supplemental unemployment benefit next month, Gov. Kevin Stitt announced on May 17.
To incentivize unemployed people to return to the work, Stitt said the state will offer a $1,200 stipend for the first 20,000 workers who get off unemployment and work at least 32 hours per week at a qualifying job. Claimants can begin applying on June 28.
âAs Ronald Reagan once said, the best social program is a job,â Stitt said at a trucking company in Oklahoma City, flanked by employers who said they are having a hard time finding workers to fill jobs. âThese Oklahoma companies are open for business and ready to grow.â
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Montgomery: After COVID-19 disrupted two school years, lawmakers on Monday voted to delay an upcoming state requirement for third graders to pass a reading test before moving up to the fourth grade. The House of Representatives voted 68-27 for the bill by Sen. Rodger Smitherman, D-Birmingham, that would delay the promotion requirement, now set to take effect next year, by two years. The bill now goes to Gov. Kay Ivey. The high-stakes promotion requirement is set to take effect at the end of the 2021-2022 school year, but supporters argued it would be unfair to force the requirement on students who were out of the traditional classroom for long stretches during the pandemic. The bill would move the implementation to the 2023-2024 school year. “These kids have had 14 months of not normal schooling. All they are asking for is a little compassion,” said Rep. Barbara Drummond, D-Mobile. “I have never ever had a bill where I’ve had
The year is 1978. Jimmy Carter is the president, a gallon of gas costs 63 cents and Pac-Man still hasn't been invented. But, that's the year the state of Oklahoma bought the computer it still uses today for unemployment claims. KOCO 5 investigates the outdated technology that made a crisis even more difficult in two state offices. Sign up for our Newsletters "The mainframe that OESC, that every single function runs through – claims processing,.
Employers are hoping to fill their vacant positions soon now that unemployment benefits will be ending early and there’s a 12-hundred dollar offer for people to return to work.