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12/9/2022
Illinois hasn’t delivered jobs, job-training promised under clean energy law
Fifteen months after Gov. J.B. Pritzker
signed the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act, the state hasn’t begun its
promised workforce development programs aimed at helping minority
contractors and workers.Lisa Benjamin has been running her own general contracting business
in Matteson since 2007 and is eager to expand and do more
energy-efficient, environm...
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12/9/2022
Guards at Pontiac state prison harassed gay co-worker, state investigation finds
And high-ranking prison officials were found not only to have failed to address the problems but to have perpetuated them.In the fall of 2018, a guard at the state’s Pontiac Correctional
Center told his supervisor an incarcerated man had masturbated at the
front of his cell while staring at him. | |
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12/9/2022
Gov J.B. Pritzker signs plan to eliminate debt in unemployment fund
Gov.
J.B. Pritzker on Thursday signed into law a measure that officials say
will eliminate a $1.8 billion debt in the pandemic-battered account that
pays out unemployment benefits.An
unexpected surge in revenue fuels the plan, with $1.36 billion paying
off a federal loan distributed to Illinois and numerous other states
when t...
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