According to a new report of 2018 and 2019 data, there was an extremely apparent and disproportionate gap between the hiring of Black women and their counterparts for state and local government jobs.
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(NYT) — Working for the public agency that handles Cook County’s storm water and wastewater often involves unglamorous trips into the cavernous Deep Tunnel or to the malodorous sewage treatment plant in south-suburban Stickney. But duty has also called district employees on trips to Thailand, Denmark, the Greek islands and some of Chicago’s nicest steakhouses […]
(AJC) — Despite months of falling tax receipts and announced teacher layoffs, Georgia added 7,000 government jobs during the last year, according to Labor Department statistics requested by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The federal government, and the military in particular, accounted for many of the new jobs. Yet state government also expanded, primarily due to an […]
(Washington Business Journal) — The Washington-area economy threatens to stall, again, but at least District government employees are boosting bottom lines elsewhere as they travel to some fine hotels across the country. Most government travel is tied to conventions, seminars, educational visits, etc. Rarely do D.C. staffers miss an opportunity to travel well, but we do […]
(CNN Money) — The number of first-time filers for unemployment insurance fell last week, according to a government report released Thursday. There were 453,000 initial jobless claims filed in the week ended May 29, down 10,000 from an upwardly revised 463,000 the previous week, the Labor Department said. A consensus estimate of economists surveyed by […]
(Washington Post) — What do you do if much of your livelihood is devoted to repairing something that is no longer broken? That’s a question facing consultants who help people navigate a federal hiring process that President Obama and Congress want to fix. Read More…