For every unemployed person in the state, there are two jobs in need of workers, Kentucky Education and Labor Secretary Jamie Link said, sharing the statistic with participants attending a
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KY labor cabinet faces new struggles as it seeks to move past pandemic unemployment problems Share Updated: 8:37 PM EDT Jul 27, 2021 Mark Vanderhoff Share Updated: 8:37 PM EDT Jul 27, 2021
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Show Transcript HEARING. EXPLAINS WHY THE SYSTEM IS NOWHERE NEAR BNGEI FIXED. Reporter: JAMIE LAKE SAID THE LABOR DEPARTMENT HAS BEEN WORKING HARD TO RESOLVE SOME OF THE ISSUES THEY VEUN R INTO OVER ETH PANDEMIC. JAMIE LAKE JUST TOOK ON THE ROLE OF LORAB SREECTARY LAST MONTH. THAT S WHEN HE FOUND OUT A COMPANWAY S WITHDWIRANG TO REPLACE KENTUCKY S 50-YEAR-OLD UNEMPLOYMENT SYSTEM. IT WAS VERY FRUSTRATING TO LEARN THAT THE PROBLEM THAT HAD BEEN MADE OR THE PROSSCE THAT WAS BEING FOLLOWED WAS BNGEI CAST ASIDE. SURPRISING TO US AS WELL. THE VENDOR NOTIFIED US THAT THEY WERE WITHDRAWING THEIR BID BECAUSE THEY HAD SEVERELY UNDERBID. Reporter: THE LABOR CABINET RECEIVED STIMULUS FUNDING FOR 90 NEW POSITIONS, BUT CAN T FIND ANYONEO T HIR