MADISON (WKOW) -- Democratic lawmakers met at the state Capitol Tuesday to reintroduce a package of bills they say would tackle Wisconsin's workforce shortage and address poverty. Rep. Lisa Subeck and ...

Gov. Newsom (right) swears in Secretary Natalie Palugyai. California’s new labor secretary is beginning to craft her strategy for driving workforce development in agriculture over the coming decades.

DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) - Turning poverty into potential. That's the goal of a new effort launching today called Workforce Dallas - looking to move workers who have the will to do so from just 'getting by ...

Why a white fast-food worker in Mississippi who never started college is the statistical epitome of a low-wage worker 615_McDonalds_Hiring_Reuters.jpg One in four U.S. workers -- or nearly 40 million ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. The 2025 Workforce Development Guide published in December ...

The U.S. poverty rate saw its largest one-year increase in history. 12.4% of Americans now live in poverty according to new 2022 data from the U.S. census, an increase from 7.4% in 2021. Child poverty ...

A growing share of residents ages 65 and older are continuing to work beyond the traditional retirement age as the effects of poverty and limited income place a strain on older adults nationwide—and ...

In 2017, 1.7 million U.S. women healthcare workers and their children lived below the poverty line — accounting for nearly 5 percent of all people living in poverty nationwide, according to research ...

Low-income households in the United States are increasingly relying on government assistance rather than employment wages, a shift that raises important questions about the nation’s welfare system.

My UAB colleague was visibly upset as she approached me with a heartbreaking yet all too common story. A patient who had been mired in deep poverty most of her life was thrilled that she finally had a ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Poverty is not an intractable problem; it can be eradicated ...

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