People are looking to hire workers in the Albany region. They are advertising more. Starting wages have gone up, and sign-on bonuses may be offered too. In September, the unemployment rate in the Hudson Valley was 4.3%. This is the lowest it has been since the pandemic hit. More and more municipalities had an unemployment […]
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Wayne County now has a new way to get to work and other places. It is affordable. On October 4th, SARTA started to offer transportation to people who live in Wayne County for just $2.50 for a one-way ride. Wayne County Transit (WCT) is a kind of bus service. You can ride them even if
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Democrats got a good idea this week of what will happen if they lose the midterm election. They are trying to turn things around before it is too late. House leaders went inside the Capitol on Friday. They were optimistic because they thought they had enough votes to vote on two important bills for us
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The government wanted to improve the network and internet coverage. The bill was proposed by the Biden administration. The United States House of Representatives just passed a $1.2 trillion bill to improve the nation’s infrastructure. The bill would require all citizens to report their crypto-taxes if President Joe Biden signs it into law. The infrastructure
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This law will help make our roads, bridges, ports, rail transit, safe water, and power grids. It will also help give people access to the internet. On Friday night, the House passed a bipartisan plan. On Saturday, Biden said he would wait until Congress comes back from recess to sign it. The new law will
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Oregon will receive $1.6 billion that it can use for infrastructure investments. They just got it from the new public works bill that Congress approved late Friday night. After the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act was approved by the U.S. House, Oregon’s congressional delegation released what our state will get from it. The bill
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In the past, people complained about housing being too expensive in New York, San Francisco, and Washington D.C. But now housing is also too expensive in other cities. Senator Jon Tester, who represents the state of Montana, said: “If you’re not making a lot of money right now and you want to buy a house
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After a three-month wait, Americans finally got their government refunds of more than $14.4 billion. The IRS distributed 11.7 million dollars to people who qualified for the tax break on Monday. This money will be distributed again by the end of the year. People who got jobless benefits last year and paid in before the
If you want to renovate your bathroom, extend the kitchen, or build a new house from the ground up, here are some tips on how to start. If you want to build a house now, you can. There are low-interest rates, and that means you can afford more than last year. You can pay for
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Unemployment is higher in Chautauqua County in September 2021 than it was before the COVID-19 pandemic. Recently, the state released New York’s latest unemployment rates. One year ago at this time, unemployment was 6.3%. Now it is 4.7%. In September 2019, before the pandemic, the county’s unemployment rate was 3.8%. The county’s labour force has
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