Last month Mayor Andre Dickens promised to employ scores of young people in his Summer Youth Employment Program. By Allison Joyner As the national unemployment rate maintains its position at 3.6 percent, the city of Atlanta’s Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) hopes to reach an ambitious benchmark from years past. Dickens announced this new program […]
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State of the metro Atlanta region — it’s tough
Public health, race relations upend usual list of metro Atlanta concerns
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Reporter’s Notebook: Early voting, unemployment checks and more
And Chattahoochee Brick is back in the news.
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Georgia spends down unemployment fund, calls on feds
This was expected and Georgia is not alone. Now how to pay it back?
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Democrats are amplifying unemployment backlog complaints. Latest stop, Decatur.
“Their employers have paid unemployment taxes on their behalf.”
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Reporter’s Notebook: Goodbye $600 extra unemployment check
Since March 21, Georgians have been paid about $10.5 billion in unemployment benefits.
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New federal relief headed to Georgia, for a start
But it’s a 247-page act that’s not fully sorted out yet — and it probably won’t be enough.
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Fed reports no upward pressure on wages in coming year across Southeast
The latest report on jobs and wages in the Southeast continues to tell the story of a tight labor market, but one that’s not tight enough to drive up wages, according to the Federal Reserve’s economic report.
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Technology Trends: The Robotics Revolution
At a business conference last week in Park City, Utah, I heard a terrific speaker, Erik Peterson, Director, Global Business Policy Council, A.T. Kearney. Unlike the President during last week’s debate, Mr. Peterson did not seem to be adversely affected by the thin mountain air. In his presentation, Mr. Peterson identified four significant trends in […]
