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Posted Jan 24, 2022, 5:35 am
Jon Marcus
/The Hechinger Report
A sharp decline in the number of Americans going to college - down nearly a million since the start of the pandemic and by nearly 3 million over the last decade - could alter American society for the worse, even as economic rivals such as China vastly increase university enrollment.... Read more»
Posted Jan 18, 2022, 12:41 pm
Bennito L. Kelty
/TucsonSentinel.com
Pima County employees will have up to 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave after the Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 on Tuesday to expand the benefit. The change will cost the county about $1.2 million annually. ... Read more»
Posted Jan 13, 2022, 12:37 pm
Emily Sacia
/Cronkite News
Consumer prices rose by an average of 7% in U.S. cities last year, the steepest rise in decades, and they grew even faster in the Phoenix metro area, according to new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.... Read more»
Posted Jan 12, 2022, 7:57 am
Jay L. Zagorsky
/The Ohio State University/The Conversation
The so-called Great Resignation was one of the top stories of 2021 as “record” numbers of workers reportedly quit their jobs - but it isn’t quite as great as it seems, since large numbers of U.S. workers have been quitting for years.... Read more»
Posted Jan 5, 2022, 4:29 am
Megan Newsham
/Cronkite News
Many people living with disabilities struggle to find professional opportunities, but the increase in remote work, prompted by office closures during the pandemic, has the potential to improve the employment rates for millions of people living with a disability.... Read more»
Posted Nov 26, 2021, 4:13 am
Ulysse Bex
/Cronkite News
Arizona’s unemployment rate continued its steady decline in October, falling to 5.2%, down a full percentage point from just two months earlier and almost one-third of the state’s pandemic high, according to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics data. ... Read more»
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Posted Jun 2, 2021, 10:58 am
Robert Farley
/Factcheck.org
Despite a stubbornly high unemployment rate of 6.1% in April — representing 9.8 million people who say they are actively looking for work — many employers are reporting that they can’t find people to hire, and economists disagree whether a too-generous unemployment supplement is the cause.... Read more»
Posted May 27, 2021, 7:21 pm
Alyssa Marksz
/Cronkite News
An employment program for veterans that began in the days after 9/11 paid off last year when the COVID-19 pandemic rattled employment for vets in the state and across the country, but witnesses said there is still room for improvement in government programs that are supposed to help soldiers transition from military to civilian life.... Read more»
Posted Sep 16, 2020, 12:58 pm
Myron Levin
/FairWarning
Tiny plastic pellets, have escaped into waterways by the countless billions as a result of failures by the plastics industry, not consumers.... Read more»
Posted Jun 30, 2020, 11:00 am
Blake Freas
/Cronkite News
Arizona posted one of the sharpest unemployment drops in the country in May, falling from a historic high of 13.4% in April to 8.9% last month, according to the latest numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.... Read more»
Posted May 29, 2020, 9:59 pm
Jim Small
/Arizona Mirror
Some 87,000 new unemployment claims were filed in the week ending May 23, bringing the total number of jobless claims since the COVID-19 pandemic started to more than 740,000.... Read more»
Posted Nov 16, 2018, 5:44 pm
Blake Morlock
/TucsonSentinel.com
The number of unfilled job openings is now greater than the number of unemployed people for the first time on record, but records only go back 18 years. Despite what some GOP spinmeisters would have you believe, “history” didn’t start in December of 2000.... Read more»
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Posted Dec 21, 2017, 2:59 pm
Betty Beard
/TucsonSentinel.com
Arizona officials have been saying for most of the year that metro Tucson is either barely adding jobs or just losing a few. But more accurate federal numbers show Tucson may be adding jobs at a healthy rate.... Read more»
Posted Jun 19, 2017, 10:03 pm
Devin Conley & Blakely McHugh/Cronkite News
Teacher salaries that are among the lowest in the nation drive down teacher morale and make retention difficult, Arizona education advocates say.... Read more»
Posted Apr 20, 2017, 12:51 pm
Betty Beard
/TucsonSentinel.com
About 20,000 people have been getting jobs each month for the first three months of the year in Arizona. While Tucson's job growth remains at the bottom of the list, but the unemployment rate here is lower than the statewide average. The increase in the state's minimum wage don't appear to have stemmed job growth.... Read more»
Posted Mar 27, 2017, 12:23 pm
Kevin Hawryluk
/Center for American Progress
Older women are increasingly staying in the workforce, with a 35 percent increase in the number of Arizona women ages 65 and older working past retirement age, according to the U.S.Bureau of Labor Statistics.... Read more»