The IRS could grow to incorporate a six-figure-sized team. The head of the Internal Revenue Service said the tax agency will need to boost its workforce, eventually having more than 100,000 on the payroll. Commissioner Danny Werfel said this would be to keep up with modernization, to meet service and enforcement goals, and to handle […]
The owner of Snapchat is cutting approximately 10 percent of its worldwide workforce, or about 530 employees, the latest tech company to announce layoffs. Snap Inc. said in a regulatory filing that it currently estimates $55 million to $75 million in charges, mostly for severance and related costs. It expects the majority of the costs […]
Amazon plans to train and educate millions of people across the globe on artificial intelligence (AI) for free, the company announced on Nov. 20. The tech giant plans to offer the free training amid what it says is a growing need for an AI-savvy workforce, according to a press release. The company cited a recent study […]
The United States is facing a spy threat from communist China that is greater in scope than the Soviets during the Cold War, according to FBI Director Christopher Wray. Furthermore, compared to China, the United States employs a smaller group of intelligence agents, Mr. Wray told The New York Times in an interview published on […]
The Biden administration revealed on Monday a comprehensive plan aimed at enhancing the cyber workforce both in the short and long term. The strategy centers around increasing the affordability and accessibility of cyber training for all Americans. There are hundreds of thousands of open cyber security positions across the country, and the White House says […]
The National Public Radio (NPR) is cutting roughly 10 percent of its current workforce as the network’s financial outlook recently “darkened considerably” amid declining advertising revenue, NPR’s executive officer announced on Thursday. “At a time when we are doing some of our most ambitious and essential work, the global economy remains uncertain. As a result, […]
U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pension holds a hearing at 10:00 a.m. ET on Feb. 16 on the health care workforce shortage. University of New England at Biddeford, ME, President James Herbert; Meharry Medical College at Nashville, Tenn., President, and CEO James E.K. Hildreth Sr.; Johns Hopkins School of Nursing at Baltimore, […]
The Biden administration this week announced over $100 million in grants to address school staff shortages and high turnover rates by lifting pay and funding teacher apprenticeships from the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan. As the 2022–2023 school year begins, schools in the United States are struggling to fill vacancies for teachers and other school […]
On Sept. 17, 2021, the White House published a blog on the economic benefits of giving permanent legal status to illegal immigrants. According to that blog, illegal immigrants coming in help the economy by expanding the workforce, which in turn leads to greater economic output. Former Border Patrol agent Kent Lundgren says immigration laws were put in […]
This graduation in China, many fresh graduates can’t find a job. Many Chinese graduates are expected to decide to either join the workforce or continue their academic pursuits before the last day of school in June. Data from a Chinese job search website shows that as of May, the employment rates of graduates only reached […]
A lot of the workforce still hasn’t returned to the office in person. leaving office buildings across the U.S. less occupied. Now Landlords and business owners are offering different types of perks in hopes to lure people back into the office.
The American Ambulance Association has warned that the nation is facing a “crippling workforce shortage” that threatens to undermine the 911 emergency services amid an unsustainable turnover rate of staff. According to the AAA/Avesta 2019 Ambulance Industry Employee Turnover Study, turnover among emergency medical technicians (EMT’s) and paramedics was in the 20 to 30 percent range annually, […]
There was a pretty positive reaction to the July jobs report all around. NTD spoke with two top experts in the field, Greg McBride at Bankrate and Joseph Trevisani at FX Street. One concern with the report was that the labor force participation rate—the percentage of working-age people who are working or willing to work—isn’t […]
Ivanka Trump, in her role as special adviser to the president, will be pushing the president’s priority policy focus this week: workforce development. Ivanka Trump spoke about the effort, which includes an update of the Perkins Act, during an interview on “Fox & Friends” on Monday. Specifically, Trump praised the Perkins Act, which will be […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ivanka Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Tuesday exhorted young girls to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math, saying those fields will provide the jobs and innovation for the future.Their tour of the National Air and Space Museum with a group of middle school students came as the Trump […]
