By Mike Klein | GPPF Forum
ATLANTA – Georgia’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in November fell below 10 percent for the first time since June and the state is celebrating the largest one-month rate decline in 34 years.  Flip the coin and Georgia has exceeded the national rate for 52 consecutive months.  Almost one-half million Georgians [...]

By Mike Klein

Georgia Public Policy Forum

Georgia appears prepared to make significant changes to its unemployment benefits program, changes that could have an impact on Georgians without jobs.  Options under review at the State Capitol include a waiting period that would delay the first check, fewer total state benefit weeks and reducing the maximum weekly benefit dollars.
Some [...]

By Kirsten Adshead | Wisconsin Reporter
MADISON — It’s been a week of uncertainty and mixed messages for Wisconsin.
A series of lawsuits may invalidate efforts to recall four Republican state senators, while state officials say they are taking reports of potential fraud and petition tampering seriously.
GOP legislative leadership announced plans to introduce legislation addressing mining regulations, but it [...]

By Rob Nikolewski
New Mexico Watchdog
“It’s a new day” at Workforce Solutions, secretary Celina Bussey says.
That’s good — because there have been plenty of bad ones at a department with a reputation for being one of the most troubled in all of New Mexico government.
“Workforce Solutions has been, to say the least, working at far less [...]

By Frank Keegan

SAN ANTONIO – Slowly, session by session, state legislators at their annual summit here are realizing they are surrounded, outnumbered, outgunned, out of ammo and supplies, and there is no chance of rescue.