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Companies can still use training repayment agreements to financially trap workers into paying for on-the-job training.A nurse intubates a patient at a hospital in McAllen, Texas, on July 20, 2020.Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Jessica Van Briggle was excited to begin her career as a nurse when she applied to work at Centinela Hospital in southern California.

A "Now Hiring" sign posted outside of a restaurant looking to hire workers on May 5, 2023, in Miami, Florida.Joe Raedle / Getty Images The establishment and household surveys told two different stories in May.The jobs numbers for the month were surprisingly high, with the survey showing a gain of 339,000 jobs.

The nation's employers stepped up their hiring in May, adding a robust 339,000 jobs, well above expectations and evidence of strength in an economy that the Federal Reserve is desperately trying to cool.Friday's report from the government showed that the unemployment rate rose to 3.7 per cent, from a five-decade low of 3.4 per cent in April.

May 25, 2023 - A host of problems-from science skepticism to the climate crisis to systemic inequities to societal violence-await those entering the field of public health, graduating students were told at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health's Convocation ceremony.But each speaker at the event also expressed confidence that the graduates could more than meet the challenges.

SPRINGFIELD - Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker and the leaders of the Illinois legislature announced Wednesday that they have reached a deal on a roughly $50 billion state budget, which they plan to bring before the Senate for a vote later in the day.The deal comes after lawmakers missed a self-imposed Friday deadline for approving a spending plan amid dissension among Democrats, who control the governor's office and both legislative chambers, over how to balance the ballooning cost of a health care program for immigrants with other party priorities.

Sheldon Jacobson's suggestions for improving the processing of asylum-seekers (" Here's how the government can improve processing immigrants," May 22) are good as far as it goes, but it fails to address what happens after those migrating are processed.In effect, they are released into the country with no resources and no opportunity to work and earn, even though they are eager to do so.

The General Assembly is in the midst of crafting legislation that reflects its most pivotal function - passage of an annual budget.And yet, Democrats, despite their supermajority, have already missed their self-imposed deadline of getting that done by last Friday.Lawmakers are reconvening Wednesday to resume work on a proposed spending plan.

Recently, many of the hospitals and clinics in and around Chicago, including my own, have elected to discontinue universal masking requirements, noting the lowest rates of COVID-19 in the last three years.This is being hailed as a sign of moving on from the COVID-19 pandemic.But is it really "moving on?"

A picture from May 1 shows an abandoned hospital in El Geneina, the capital of West Darfur, a state in Sudan.Weeks of fierce fighting in the country have had a devastating impact on health care.AFP via Getty Images On the afternoon of April 24, Dr. Attia Abdullah, a general medicine doctor and secretary general of the Sudan Doctors Trade Union, got a call: An airstrike had hit the Al-Kalakla neighborhood of Khartoum and civilian casualties were pouring in.

If your pet plan was to be one and done, it might be time to rethink your single-dog strategy.According to new research, if you want your dog to really thrive, especially as they age, it's time for a new addition to the family.A new study from the Dog Aging Project points to five key pillars of dog health and longevity, and, like with their bipedal roommates, social interaction is way more important than you probably want to admit.

Parents in the United States are very aware of how expensive it is to raise kids today.Particularly over the past few years - with the rise of inflation and the cost of living for everything going up while average wages stay the same - families are struggling to cover their basic needs.But a new report from SmartAsset shows just how expensive it is to raise a kid in the U.S., and there are some big fluctuations depending on which metro area you live in.

The head of new NATO member Finland's center-right conservative National Coalition Party is poised Friday to present a four-party agreement to form a governing coalition that includes a far-right anti-immigration party.NCP leader Petteri Orpo, who is expected to become the Nordic nation's next prime minister, said that four parties had agreed to form a government.

As a result, rents are unaffordable for many Californians.The median rent for a two-bedroom home in San José, for example, is $3,100, according to Zillow.It's the same in Los Angeles.Ann Owens, a sociology professor at the University of Southern California specializing in social inequality and housing, believes everyone has a right to housing.

Prior to computers, all industry was visible.People could see the rudders, sails, bolts and gears.It was easy to see how the parts of a machine made it work.Transparency was as easy as opening the car hood to look at the engine or looking up at an advertising billboard.And how things worked was documented by regulators.

Eight candidates vying to become Toronto's next mayor traded barbs at a debate partly focused on seniors' issues Wednesday, with the roundtable format often descending into heated cross-talk.The 90-minute contest, hosted by the Canadian Association of Retired Persons (CARP) and Zoomer Radio, was held on the eve of the advance voting period, which runs from June 8 to 13.

Ontario's fiscal watchdog says the province has $4.4 billion more allocated to health care than what's needed to fund current programs and commitments made until 2026.The Financial Accountability Office of Ontario says the excess money could be used for new programs, enhancing old programs or using it to pay down the province's debt.

Business owners from a community north of Toronto traveled to Queen's Park on Tuesday to plead for the province to save their local emergency room, slated to close in just two days, and calling for a last-minute intervention.The emergency room in Minden, Ont., approximately 195 kilometres north of Toronto, is set to close on Thursday, at which point the local health board, Haliburton Highlands Health Service (HHHS), will transfer all emergency services to its Haliburton site.

Toronto's homeless encampments took centre stage on the mayoral campaign trail on Monday, with candidate Mark Saunders vowing to clear them from public spaces.Saunders, Ana Bailao and Brad Bradford put forward proposals for more outreach, support and housing, while three of the other top six candidates Mitzie Hunter, Olivia Chow and Josh Matlow took a stand on the issue at a debate last week.

Ted Hsu, the MPP for Kingston and the Islands, is putting his name forward as a candidate for the leadership of Ontario's Liberal Party.Hsu made the announcement at Portsmouth Olympic Harbour in Kingston early Sunday afternoon to a crowd of supporters, and he was joined on stage by Tragically Hip guitarist Rob Baker.

The Apple Vision Pro headset is displayed in a showroom on the Apple campus in Cupertino, Calif., at the company's annual developers conference, Monday, June 5, 2023.Jeff Chiu/AP CUPERTINO, Calif.Apple on Monday unveiled a long-rumored headset that will place its users between the virtual and real world, while also testing the technology trendsetter's ability to popularize new-fangled devices after others failed to capture the public's imagination.

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Members of the Austin American-Statesman 's labor union went on strike Monday because of an ongoing contract dispute with the newspaper's parent company, Gannett.Nicole Villalpando, who covers health care for the Statesman and serves as the union's vice chair, said she and some of her other colleagues have to work other jobs.

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Leaders from two of Austin's most prominent economic sectors - housing and hospitality - see passage of a new Land Development Code and eliminating the tipped minimum wage for restaurant staff as two long-needed steps to address increasing affordability concerns across the city.

KYIV, Ukraine Russia targeted the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, yet again in the early hours of Thursday, killing three people, including at least one child.Air raid sirens and loud explosions throughout the city awoke residents worn out by a month of relentless attacks.Kyiv's mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said on the Telegram messaging app that an additional 14 people were injured.

Skip to content Continue reading the main story Moscow June 1, 11:12 a.m.Washington June 1, 4:12 a.m.Emergency personnel at a clinic compound in Kyiv, Ukraine, after a Russian attack on Thursday.Credit...Nicole Tung for The New York Times KYIV, Ukraine Russia targeted the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, yet again in the early hours of Thursday, killing three people, including at least one child.

Sitting at a cafe terrace overlooking a park commemorating the birthplace of the vast oil industry in the western Canadian province of Alberta, Audrey Cerkvenac and Ernestine Dumont, wrestled with a political dilemma.In a province long the epicenter of Canada's conservative politics, the two older women had been unwavering conservative supporters.

As the politicians and Republican Party officials tossed out the red meat on Saturday at an event at the Iowa State Fairgrounds, Wayne Johnson, a 70-year-old farmer and financial consultant from Forest City, Iowa, had some quieter thoughts about the next president he would like to see.The violence in American schools and public places, the tribalism in politics, the negativity of the nation's elected officials If a leader can take us in a positive direction, people will follow, Mr. Johnson said.

Greg Abbott, the Republican governor of Texas, signed a bill on Friday to ban hormone and puberty blocking treatments, as well as surgeries, for transgender minors.Set to go into effect on Sept. 1, the measure would make Texas the largest state to ban transition medical care for people under 18.The bill would prohibit a doctor from performing mastectomies or surgeries that would sterilize a minor or remove otherwise healthy tissue or body parts, and from prescribing drugs that would induce transient or permanent infertility.

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone One of the misimpressions people have about the world is that it's going to hell.Perhaps that's because humanity's great triumph over the last half-century huge reductions in poverty, disease and early death goes largely unacknowledged.Just about the worst thing that can happen to anyone is to lose a child, and historically, almost half of children died before reaching adulthood.

We've had some odd job reports over the years, but the key is to always follow the trend.That's especially important with Friday's data, which showed 339,000 jobs were created in May even while the unemployment rate increased.As someone who wrote that we should get job openings toward 10 million in this expansion, I am always mindful of my other labor talking point.

Christina Lusk, a transgender woman and inmate at Minnesota Correctional Facility-Moose Lake, poses for a portrait on Sept. 7, 2022.Lusk and the Minnesota Department of Corrections have settled her lawsuit, and she is set to move to a women's prison.Caroline Yang for NPR Christina Lusk, a transgender woman who sued the Minnesota Department of Corrections over her treatment while in prison, has reached a settlement that includes a move to the state's women-only Shakopee prison and access to gender-affirming health care.

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They beat prisoners relentlessly and tortured them with electric shocks, waterboarding and mock executions.Three people died in their custody.Yet such was their sense of impunity, the Russians who seized control of a detention center in southern Ukraine last year and filled it with 200 detainees were careless about concealing their identities.

The Irish nationalist party, Sinn Fein, cemented its status as the largest party in Northern Ireland in local election results counted over the weekend.But rather than break a political deadlock in the North, Sinn Fein's striking gains may harden the sectarian divide that has long complicated its fragile government.

An emergency department in Minden, Ont., is slated to close in one week but residents say they will keep up the pressure on the province to make sure the closure is not permanent."We are not statistics," Richard Bradley, a resident, told CBC Toronto on Thursday."We are determined.The only statistic we want to be is the town that saves its ER.

Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, is running for president of the United States on a record of anti-diversity, pro-censorship, white nationalist measures.He has targeted education, LGBTQ rights and access to health care, and should he prevail, his anti-science candidacy stands to harm millions of Americans.

Certain fungal illnesses are notoriously dangerous and difficult to treat, and now a small pocket of suspected cases of fungal meningitis, a disease that affects the brain and spinal cord, is raising alarm in Texas.State and national health officials released an alert last week about the infectionsall of which were in U.S. residents who had recently received surgery in the Mexican city of Matamoros, which borders on Brownsville, Tex.

Most people who work on data science, AI, and digital transformation are painfully aware that it is often culture, not technology, that stymies their efforts.Many even know the high-level steps they're supposed to take to fix this problem - invest attention and money into changing people's mindsets and how the company uses data.

This week in Washington IP news, Congress is having a relatively quiet week, but the House will further discuss the impact of Pharmacy Benefit Managers on patients and the pharmaceutical industry.Elsewhere the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is holding an event offering guidance on how women entrepreneurs can seek startup capital.

First Citizens BancShares Inc, which acquired Silicon Valley Bank following its collapse, sued HSBC Holdings PLC on Monday, accusing it of illegally poaching more than 40 of the failed bank's employees to launch its own U.S. venture banking business.The lawsuit filed in San Francisco federal court says HSBC violated federal law by hiring away the workers so it could gain access to Silicon Valley Bank's (SVB) trade secrets, including information about clients in the tech and health-care sectors.