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Additionally, 11 states have passed laws since 2020 that create new protections for election officials and poll workers – ranging from making it a crime to threaten a worker to shielding ...
Resignation rates in the U.S. during the pandemic initially followed this pattern. In March and April 2020, a record 13.0 and 9.3 million workers (8.6% and 7.2%) were laid off, and the quit rate subsequently fell to a seven-year low of 1.6%. [ 35 ]
Sixteen weeks after Trump's 2020 executive order that provided enhanced weekly unemployment benefits of $300 as part of the U.S. federal government response to the pandemic, Noem opted out of the program, citing a low state unemployment rate. [165] South Dakota was the only state to refuse the assistance. [166]
Many political appointees of Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States, have resigned or were dismissed. Multiple publications have called attention to the record-setting turnover rate in the first year of the Trump's first term .
Election directors’ salaries are determined by the counties they work in. The only guidance state law gives is that directors must be paid at least $12 an hour — less than $25,000 a year.
Recent elections in Palm Beach County have shown that while our system is robust, it is the people behind it who truly make it work. Our election workers have demonstrated extraordinary ...
The pandemic caused the unemployment rate to temporarily rise from roughly 2 percent to nearly 18 percent of the workforce, higher than the Great Recession of 2008, but lower than the peak of the Great Depression in 1933.
A viral social media post claims some states have high unemployment rates because they’re run by Democratic governors. That is missing context. Fact check: State unemployment rates impacted by ...