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Executive orders impacting federal workers are sowing confusion and frustration among government employees across the country, including VA employees throughout the Ozarks.
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Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is seeking a waiver from the Trump administration to re-establish work requirements for some Arkansas Medicaid recipients. The governor made the announcement yesterday.
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According to a report released by the Arkansas Division of Workforce Services and the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Arkansas’ unemployment rate is up to 3.4%.
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The U.S. Department of Labor is trying to get more more than $1.5 million in unclaimed wages back into the hands of workers in Arkansas.
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On today's show, we hear how the University of Arkansas School of Social Work and the Fayetteville Police Department have paired up to handle mental health crises more effectively. Also, learning from a scholar at risk who works to promote the literature of women writers from Afghanistan. Plus, we have more about a report that states workers in Arkansas were owed more than $1.5 million in back wages from employers.
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A study from Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families reports that child labor violations are up in Arkansas and across the U.S., as lawmakers push for more lax child employment restrictions.
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On this week's edition of the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal report, host Roby Brock speaks with Dana Deree, the co-founder of Arkansas Global Connect. They discuss how Deree's organization ethically connects employers to reliable, legal and productive labor from abroad.
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The change is the result of a proposed strategy from USPS that is currently under review with the Postal Regulatory Commission and is estimated to save the postal service nearly $3 billion a year.
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Award-winning journalist Alice Driver turns her focus to the nation's largest meatpacking company, Tyson Foods, and the immigrant workforce that keeps it going in her latest book, "Life and Death of the American Worker."
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Fayetteville Public Library employees are raising concerns about pay disparity and a difficult work environment. The problems were raised last week at the library's board of trustees meeting. Ozarks at Large's Daniel Caruth brings us this report.