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Downtown Montgomery is still waiting for the crowds that once filled its entertainment district, but the hotel and restaurant industry that was built to cater to them already has its hands full. “Help wanted” signs line the streets alongside notes asking customers to be patient with the thin staff inside. “Most of them are working overtime every week,” said Jake Kyser, whose company manages Central restaurant and several other hospitality properties across the area. “We’re concerned about them getting burnout. And that’s not the ideal way to run a business, constantly paying overtime.” Gov. Kay Ivey announced Monday that Alabama will withdraw from federal unemployment programs on June 19, in part to help the hospitality industry find workers. That means ending a $300 federal boost in weekly benefits, no longer allowing benefits to a wider group of workers and ending the right to draw unemployment benefits for longer than usual. ....
From USA TODAY Network and wire reports Alabama Montgomery: With the state’s jobless numbers already nearing pre-pandemic levels and competition on the rise in a changed job market, the search for hospitality workers may not end with Alabama’s participation in federal supplemental unemployment benefits. Some who lost jobs in the industry “went off and found a job that has more … dependable wages,” said Jacqueline Allen, spokeswoman for state workforce development agency AIDT. “Everybody who basically wants a job right now has a job.” That’s My Child youth nonprofit founder Charles Lee said every member of his teens-to-work training program now graduates with a job, and the phone keeps ringing with employers asking for more. Meanwhile, he said federal relief payments and jobless benefits have changed people’s outlook on what’s possible. “It’s the most money some people have ever seen,” Lee said. “I think it’s just whoever is willing to go up to ....
13:00, May 05 2021 supplied/Nelson Mail Jacqueline Allen, of Para Para Organics, at her new community food forest site. Nine Golden Bay residents making a positive difference for the climate will share their stories for a mere six minutes, each holding one prop, this month. Climate Love Talks features everything from the relationship between mental health, farming and climate, to growing food instead of lawns. Climate Love founder Charlotte Squire says she’s invited “inspiring” people from a cross-section of the Golden Bay community to share their stories. “We have Georgie Moleta speaking about her passion for feeding her community good quality, usually locally grown meat; Wayne Langford speaking from the heart about climate and farming; and Jacqueline Allen will share her long-held vision for a community food forest. ....