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employment

America’s Talent Corridors: Where Career Mobility Flows Across the U.S.

MyPerfectResume, a premium resume-building service, has released a new workforce mobility analysis revealing that career transitions across the United...

power

TX: Governor Abbott Announces $8.8 Million In Grants For Electric Reliability In The South Plains

Governor Greg Abbott announced a package of four Texas Energy Fund (TxEF) grants totaling more than $8.8 million to strengthen electric reliability fo...

workforce

MN: Cirrus Opens New Talent Center in Duluth to Advance Workforce Development

Cirrus (Cirrus Aircraft Ltd.), the leading global manufacturer in Personal Aviation™ and Duluth’s Best Large Employer for nine years in a row, as vote...

agriculture

WA: Sustainable Dairy Digester Programs Receive $13.8 Million Commerce Investment

Seven projects in five mostly rural counties, including one tribal community, will receive a total of $13,804,000 to help build, repair and upgrade sy...

biotech

Biotech Funding Recovery Favors Late-Stage, Lower-Risk Assets, Says GlobalData Survey

The biopharmaceutical industry has seen a recovery in funding through 2026, following a prolonged downturn that limited access to capital across the s...

AI

59% of Workers Expect Employers to Use AI to Cut Jobs and Costs in 2026, Says Survey

As businesses continue to roll out AI roadmaps to boost productivity, many workers are not convinced that the technology’s primary purpose will be to ...

AI

Study: Half of Small Business Workers Use AI—Most to Boost Productivity, Not Automate Jobs

Half of all workers at small businesses already use AI at work — and the vast majority are using it to get more done, not to automate themselves out o...

construction

NM: Southern New Mexico Berm Project to Mitigate Flooding Impacts Reaches Major Milestone

A multi-mile protective berm designed to shield the Columbus Port of Entry and surrounding communities from recurring floods reached a key constructio...

business

Report: 32% of Job Seekers Spend Under a Minute Reviewing Roles as Mass Applying Surges

Job seekers are increasingly turning to “doomjobbing,” a pattern of rapid, high-volume applications driven by urgency and uncertainty, according to ne...

business

MA: Healey-Driscoll Administration Drives Manufacturing Innovation Through New Statewide Accelerator

The Healey-Driscoll Administration and the Center for Advanced Manufacturing (CAM), a division of the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MassTech...