TIAA Ranks 9th on DiversityInc s 2021 Top 50 Companies List
This is TIAA s ninth consecutive year being ranked on DiversityInc s Top 50 list, and its second consecutive year within the top 10 companies.
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NEW YORK, May 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ TIAA was named #9 on the 2021 DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity list, holding steady from its #9 rank in 2020. This achievement recognizes TIAA s longstanding commitment to fostering an inclusive workplace that reflects the diversity of the clients that it serves. DiversityInc s highly competitive and rigorous annual survey yields a data driven ranking based on six criteria: talent results in the workforce and management, senior leadership accountability, talent programs, workplace practices, philanthropy and supplier diversity. TIAA was also recognized on Top Company specialty lists for Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG), Black Executives, Talent Acquisition for Women
More Than 200 New Jobs To Come To The Region Due To Establishment Of Production Facility For Window & Door Company
More Than 200 New Jobs To Come To The Region Due To Establishment Of Production Facility For Window & Door Company
May 4, 2021
Governor Roy Cooper announced today (May 4) that JELD-WEN Holding, Inc., the global manufacturer of windows and doors, will create 235 jobs in Iredell County. The company will invest $7.9 million in Statesville to establish a new production facility for VPI Quality Windows.
VPI Quality Windows is a brand of JELD-WEN. The North Carolina facility will be VPI’s second manufacturing facility, and will enable JELD-WEN to better serve its expanding customer base. VPI has been a leading manufacturer of custom windows for multi-family and commercial applications for more than 25 years.
Charlotteâs mobility plan goes missing as city manager misses deadlines for providing cost estimates
Charlotteâs mobility plan goes missing as city manager misses deadlines for providing cost estimates By David Hodges | April 29, 2021 at 6:08 PM EDT - Updated April 29 at 6:36 PM
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - A plan to improve Charlotte-area transportation has dropped off the map.
A WBTV Investigation shows City Manager Marcus Jones has missed his own deadlines for providing new information about Charlotteâs Transformational Mobility Network.
At the start of 2021, few City of Charlotte priorities had more attention than the Transformational Mobility Network.
But lately the project has gone missing from council agendas and updates promised regarding the estimated cost of the project and legislation to get a proposed one cent sales tax approved have been not come to fruition.
WFAE A man sleeps in a bus shelter on East Trade Street during the Speed Street Festival uptown in 2019.
A coalition of city, county, nonprofit and business leaders launched an effort Thursday to develop a five-year strategic plan to eradicate homelessness and expand low-income housing in Charlotte.
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Organizing began a year ago for the
2025 Charlotte-Mecklenburg Housing & Homelessness Strategy. The initial working group includes not only local leaders, but also someone who has experienced homelessness. The idea is to draft specific plans and identify funding by this fall, said Mecklenburg County Manager Dena Diorio. We re going to be looking at prevention, better wraparound services, access to affordable housing, data, communications, and really trying to integrate all the work so we look at it from a continuum perspective as opposed to just one segment of the continuum, Diorio said.
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VP Harris Visits North Carolina To Tout Infrastructure Plan
(Greensboro, NC) Kamala Harris is touting the American Jobs Plan in the Tarheel State. The vice president made a visit yesterday to Greensboro and High Point, where she spoke about the potential for jobs and training. The plan is also expected to provide North Carolina with funds to work on things like physical infrastructure and broadband expansion. Also making the visit was EPA administrator Michael Regan, who graduated from North Carolina A & T State University.
Another Asheville Homeless Camp Evacuated
(Asheville, NC) Yet another homeless camp is evacuated in Asheville. Yesterday marked a week since the city gave a seven-day notice to clear the encampment out of Riverbend Park near Isaac Dickson Elementary School due to safety concerns. People have also recently relocated out of Aston Park and Martin Luther King Park. The city said 40 people at Riverbend Park took up an offer to stay in