A retail store in Oceanside, Califorinia, advertises full-time jobs May 10, 2021. (CNS/Reuters/Mike Blake)
Several Republican governors are withdrawing their states from the generous federal unemployment programs enacted as part of the COVID-19 relief effort. They note that there is a shortage of workers 8.1 million job openings in March, according to Department of Labor statistics, the highest level ever recorded and fear that people are refusing to go back to work because they can make more collecting unemployment benefits.
In March 2020, as the enormity of the economic meltdown caused by the pandemic came into view, Congress passed and President Donald Trump signed a relief bill that extended $600 in additional weekly benefits for unemployed workers. The bill also extended unemployment assistance to certain kinds of workers, such a those in the gig economy, who normally would not qualify for unemployment benefits. At the time, of course, the bottom had fall
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The post-pandemic world is poised to take advantage of innovation across an incredibly broad swath of the economy. Global vaccine distribution, for instance, is just one of many large-scale logistical challenges facing governments and industries over the near term.
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Denise Whisenhunt has been named the new president of Grossmont College and will begin her new role July 1, pending contract approval by the school’s governing board on Tuesday.
Whisenhunt was one of three finalists vying to succeed Nabil Abu-Ghazaleh.
Lyn Neault, chancellor of the Grossmont-Cuyamaca Community College District, called making the selection “an extremely difficult decision.”
Two other candidates with deep backgrounds in education Mary Gutierrez and Marsha Gable were also in the running.
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Whisenhunt has been vice president of student services at San Diego City College since 2013. She previously served for 14 months beginning in May 2016 as interim president of the college until a permanent president was hired. She previously served as interim vice president of student services at San Diego Mesa College.
WASHINGTON (CNS) Catholic college graduation ceremonies like everything else this past year look different. But they are primarily happening in-person unlike last year, when many ceremonies were canceled or took place virtually.
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This short memoir was provoked by an article titled, The Disappearance of Martin Puryear about the destruction of the artist s sculpture at the Michigan Legacy Art Park written by the Director Joseph Beyer and published on the Park s web site.
My memoir seeks to tell the story of the creation of that artwork, its transfer to the Michigan Legacy Art Park, and its destruction based on my first-hand connection to that story. Importantly, it seeks to correctly describe the roles played by Professor Al Hebert and David Barr.
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Jim Pallas (Professor, retired)
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One sunny summer day, I was walking down the north colonnade on Macomb County College s South Campus.