With more students struggling with mental health issues in the wake of the pandemic, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer wants to increase mental health services in schools.
New York lawmakers to approve early counting of absentee ballots, expand early voting sites Denis Slattery
ALBANY Counting absentee ballots in New York could become a much less frustrating process in future elections thanks to a new bill slated to be approved by state lawmakers this week.
Legislation sponsored by Sen. Michael Gianaris (D-Queens) would allow valid absentee ballots to be scanned in the days before early voting begins and then tabulated on Election Day.
The measure could help avoid the weeks-long wait for results seen in some races last year as New Yorkers used mail-in ballots in record numbers due to the COVID pandemic.
“We will dramatically increase the number of early voting sites and require them to count absentees up front so that we can actually know election results in almost all cases on Election Night,” N.Y. Sen. Gianaris told the Daily News.
Help wanted. Not interested
All across North Carolina “Face Masks Required” postings on businesses are being replaced by “Help Wanted” signs. But a recent jobs report indicates there were more than 8.1 million unfilled jobs in the US and folks aren’t rushing to fill them.
Why? The most common answer is that when people can get $300 weekly federal unemployment checks on top of state unemployment averaging another $216, they have no incentive to work. Are there that many people who just don’t want to work? It goes much deeper.
Let’s do the math. If you are a parent with one child in North Carolina, you pay an average of $178 per week for childcare or $324 for two kids. The combined federal and NC average unemployment benefit amounts to $516 per week. Deduct just the amount of childcare for one child and you receive $338 per week. Even a job paying $15 per hour for a 40-hour week nets you just $84 per week more than unemployment, and that’s before FICA and wit
All across North Carolina “Face Masks Required” postings on businesses are being replaced by “Help Wanted” signs. But a recent jobs report indicates there were more than 8.1 million unfilled