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Woman aims to help ‘invisible population’ of single moms weather the pandemic Annie Knox © Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News Lisa Sledge, a lawyer and a single mother of two, center, walks with her children Emmett and Bethany and dog Marshall in West Jordan on Sunday, Feb. 7, 2021. Sledge earned a law degree while raising her children on her own and wants to help others through her new nonprofit Freedom for Resilient Women. Lisa Sledge earned a law degree, in her telling, by the grace of God and a support network that spanned from kind professors to anonymous donors leavi...

KSL TV SALT LAKE CITY – It has been against the law since the 1960s for an employer to discriminate against an employee based on age. But it happens frequently, thanks, largely, to a loophole in the law. Now, advocates are hopeful they can close that loophole. The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 clearly says a boss can't decide not to hire you or not promote you, based on being older. But about 10 years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court picked the law apart making age discrimination a lesser form of discrimination. Susan Weinstock, AARP vice president of financial resilience, said it...

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Deseret News State’s unemployment rate drops to 3.6% Share this story Kristin Murphy, Deseret News SALT LAKE CITY — A state economist says Utah’s “ship has righted,” with the Beehive State reporting a 3.6% unemployment rate and the first month of year-over-year growth in people working since the pandemic hit. “In December, Utah became the second state economy to flip from COVID-induced job losses back to economic expansion,” said Mark Knold, chief economist with the Utah Department of Workforce Services. But the turnaround has not happened for all industries. “That imbalance s...

| Updated: 8:14 p.m. Nearly nine months into the pandemic, Utah’s economy has reversed deep job losses suffered earlier in the crisis and actually ended a terrible 2020 slightly ahead on employment. The Beehive State’s unemployment rate markedly improved to 3.6% last month from 4.3% in November after essentially flipping in December from a downturn to something of a jobs expansion, ending the year with employment up by 0.6%. Nationally, unemployment stood at 6.7% for December, unchanged from November. Overall jobs across the U.S. ended 2020 down 6%, according to the Bureau of Labor Stati...