To be eligible for cooling assistance, households must qualify for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which serves households with incomes up to 60% of the state's median income.
To be eligible for cooling assistance, households must qualify for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which serves households with incomes up to 60% of the state's median income.
Summer construction season is in full swing, and labor leaders in Iowa worry how seasonal workers will be affected down the road by changes to the state s unemployment rules. And those aren t their only concerns. Iowa implemented a law on July 1, which cuts jobless benefits from 26 weeks down to 16. .
Workers at a hospital on the Oregon coast are citing a victory in contract negotiations with their employer. More than 100 members of SEIU Local 49 at Samaritan North Lincoln Hospital in Lincoln City will receive raises averaging 10% over the first year of their new contract. Brittany King, a CT special imaging technologist at the hospital, said many workers have been struggling to afford living in the community, and this raise makes the hospital s wages competitive with the local job market. .
A new Minnesota law, which goes into effect Sunday, removes requirements restricting Social Security recipients from receiving full jobless benefits as well. Bill sponsors noted Minnesota was the last state to have the offset requirement. It reduced by 50% unemployment aid for laid-off workers who, within the first year, either received or started to apply for Social Security. .