April 16, 2021 - Smlr_net

16 Apr 2021


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*APRIL 16, 2021*
*Title:*                    Murphy Considers $40M for Undocumented Workers.
Immigrant Groups Call It ‘Insulting.'
*Source:*               NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
*Author:*               Sophie Nieto-Munoz
*Date:*                   April 15, 2021
*Summary:*          Gov. Phil Murphy is considering a $40 million fund for
the state’s 460,000 undocumented immigrants who have not been eligible for
any coronavirus stimulus checks or unemployment benefits, according to
immigrant advocacy groups who were on a Tuesday night call with the
governor’s office.
*Link:*                    https://bit.ly/3x0Xo9K
*Title:*                    Are Unemployment Benefits Really Making It
Impossible for Restaurants to Hire?
*Source:*               Slate
*Author:*               Jordan Weissmann
*Date:*                   April 15, 2021
*Summary:*          With spring in bloom and millions of Americans getting
vaccinated by the day, business has started picking back up for America’s
financially battered restaurants. There’s just one problem: They can’t find
enough hands to hire. That, anyway, is what’s been reported in a raft of
articles describing an industrywide labor shortage that’s challenged
eateries across the U.S. and even forced some to close, right when it
seemed they’d reached the light at the end of COVID’s long, dark tunnel.
Restaurants have been especially troubled by a lack of back-of-the-house
staff like line cooks; after all, you can’t serve food if nobody’s in the
kitchen.
*Link:*                    https://bit.ly/32xZekJ
*Title:*                   With Layoffs Down and Spending Up, U.S. Rebound
Gains Momentum
*Source:*               Associated Press
*Author:*               Christopher Rugaber and Joseph Pisani
*Date:*                   April 15, 2021
*Summary:*          A much-awaited economic boom coming off the pandemic
recession appeared to edge closer to reality Thursday with fresh data
showing the pace of layoffs dwindling, consumers spending freely and
manufacturing rebounding.
*Link:*                    https://bit.ly/3ag1gdb
*Title:*                    Biden Says His Climate Plan Means Jobs. Some
Union Members are Skeptical
*Source:*               NPR
*Author:*               Reid Frazier
*Date:*                   April 15, 2021
*Summary:*          President Biden is selling the climate-friendly aspects
of his $2 trillion infrastructure plan as a chance to create good-paying
union jobs. But at a local branch of one of the country's oldest unions,
there are doubts that dealing with climate change will be good for workers
here, in the oil-and-gas state of Pennsylvania.
*Link:*                    https://n.pr/3aeml7U
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