Kempâs economic plan cuts off federal unemployment payments Gov. Kemp interviewed in Savannah. (Source: WTOC) By Dave Miller | May 13, 2021 at 2:16 PM EDT - Updated May 13 at 3:16 PM
ATLANTA, Ga. (WALB) - Early Thursday afternoon, Governor Brian Kemp issued a release addressing plans he has made in conjunction with Labor Commissioner Mark Butler to promote the stateâs economic recovery.
Kemp said that state labor officials plan to pull out of federal pandemic unemployment programs, effective Saturday, June 26.
âDuring truly unprecedented times, hardworking Georgians have stayed resilient and businesses of all sizes have quickly adapted to an unpredictable environment,â said Kemp. âEven in the middle of a global pandemic, job growth and economic development in Georgia remained strong â including an unemployment rate below the national average.â
Atlanta, May 13, 2021 Georgia is cutting off federal unemployment programs that provide a $300-a-week boost to people on the jobless rolls, as well as programs that pay federal money to people not usually eligible for state unemployment or who have been on jobless aid for longer than the state provides, a move that […]
The steady replacement of men by machines the advance of automation is already threatening to destroy thousands of jobs and wipe out entire plants, warned John F. Kennedy in 1960, a time when computers took up entire rooms and cost millions of dollars.
Sixty years later, when technology is less expensive and more capable, employing technology is economical for even more tasks. Kennedy talked about industrial robots performing operations at car manufacturing plants. Today, robots process your burger order (think mobile apps or those touch screen kiosks at McDonald s) and will cook the actual burger in the near future. These are basic realities and no amount of rhetoric from politicians will stop these changes.
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THE BIG DEAL Job openings jump to record high of 8.1 million: The number of open jobs in the U.S. reached a record high of 8.1 million in March, the Labor Department reported Tuesday.
Job openings rose by 597,000 in March, an increase of 5.3 percent, to the highest level since the Labor Department began tracking the data in December 2000.
The largest gains came in leisure and hospitality (185,000), public education (155,000) and arts, entertainment and recreation (81,000).
The number of hires stayed even at roughly 6 million in March, a month when the U.S. added 770,000 jobs, according to revised totals from the April employment report. Layoffs also declined to a record low of 1.5 million in March.