California Governor Jerry Brown wants to save the state $20 million per year by making state employees return taxpayer funded cell phones. In his first executive order as governor, Mr. Brown directed agency and department heads to cut their employees’ cell phones by half. According to the governor’s office, 40 percent of all state employees [...]
In an effort to help states build and maintain a workforce tooled to work in a clean energy economy, the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices has released a new issue brief. Higher education systems, training programs and private industry will have to work in tandem to develop a clean energy workforce, the brief [...]
According to an interim report, produced by Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell’s Commission on Government Reform & Restructuring, the Commonwealth is looking to promote expanded use of telework in government, while enhancing business-centric and citizen-centric customer services. Making up the lion’s share of the reports 107 suggestions, the shared services committee recommended ways to make collections [...]
On August 6 of this year, Ohio Governor Ted Strickland issued Executive Order 2010-09S, which prohibits the use of public funds for services provided offshore. The outsourcing ban has riled the Indian Commerce and Industry Minister in the wake of a US-India Trade Policy Forum. But Ohio is hardly the only state to look at [...]
According to an announcement by Governor Martin O’Malley the state has launched a new website for jobseekers in Maryland. The Maryland Workforce Exchange program crawls other job search websites and employer websites to create a one-stop shop for Marylanders, the governor said.
Even though the National Bureau of Economic Research declared the recession is over yesterday, a new announcement from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that unemployment rates continue to rise in 27 states. Additionally, while some states saw decreased or unchanged rates those decreases were barely enough to be felt. Nevada experienced the highest unemployment [...]
Georgia has launched a new website, Work Ready Connect – an online employment marketplace for people certified under the state’s Work Ready Certification program. The website will link up employers and employees that participate in the program to provide information about available positions and application requirements. The new site will be free for certified employees [...]
3,000 recent college graduates in California will get entrepreneurial training provided by Alibaba.com through a new partnership the website has made with the state. Aliababa.com is currently one of the largest online e-commerce companies and will show students how to start their own businesses and become successful knowledge workers. The partnership will be called the [...]
Pennsylvania will be giving workers in the state a big boost in funding with the hope of creating more jobs. The state will be leveraging 125 grants totaling $18.8 million in investments for business partnerships and worker training. The funding will come from a mix of state money and private matching funds. The funds will [...]
As the culmination of a year-long look at the state of Utah’s operations, the Utah Advisory Commission to Optimize State Government found that many of the state’s existing management and fiscal processes were effectively run. In recommending further ways to improve, the Commission pointed to five areas of “critical” opportunity, including the creation of a [...]
