WASHINGTON, Sept. 24 -- The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued the following news release: NEW YORK ACARE HHC, Inc., doing business as Four Seasons Licensed Home Health Care Agency, a Brooklyn-based company supplying home health aides, will pay $400,000 and furnish other relief to settle a race and national origin discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. According to the EEOC's lawsuit, Four Seasons routine  more

ALBANY, New York, Sept. 25 -- The New York State Department of Health issued the following news release on Sept. 24, 2024: * * * New York's First Human Case of EEE Since 2015 in Ulster County Has Died State Issues Declaration of Imminent Threat to Public Health and Urges New Yorkers to Follow Recommendations to Reduce Risk of Mosquito-Borne Illness Governor Activated Multiple Agencies and Increased Coordination Between State and Local Health Officials Measures Include Mosquito Spraying, Mor  more

OLYMPIA, Washington, Sept. 25 -- Gov. Jay Inslee, D-Washington, issued the following news: The U.S. Climate Alliance, a bipartisan coalition of 24 governors representing approximately 60 percent of the U.S. economy and 55 percent of the U.S. population, today launched the Governors' Climate-Ready Workforce Initiative to grow career pathways in climate and clean energy fields, strengthen workforce diversity, and jointly train 1 million new registered apprentices by 2035 across the Alliance's sta  more