WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 -- The U.S. Department of Commerce issued the following news release: Includes an anticipated $11.5 million for the first workforce development awardees to address critical U.S. job and skill gaps across semiconductor research, design, manufacturing, and production Today, the Biden-Harris Administration announced the launch of the National Semiconductor Technology Center's (NSTC) Workforce Center of Excellence (WCoE), making a decisive step toward solving one of the most p  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration issued the following news release on Sept. 25, 2024: The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the award of $6.5 million in National Farmworker Jobs Program Housing Services Grants to help seven organizations in eight states ensure migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their dependents have proper housing solutions. While seasonal and migrant farmworkers are essential to the nation's agriculture indu  more

TAMPA, Florida, Sept. 27 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Florida issued the following news release: Acadia Healthcare Company Inc., a Delaware corporation with its principal place of business in Franklin, Tennessee, has agreed to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act and related state statutes by knowingly billing for medically unnecessary inpatient behavioral health services or for services that did not meet federal and state regulations. Acadi  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Sept. 27 -- Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul issued the following news release: Attorney General Kwame Raoul joined 22 attorneys general in support of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives' (ATF) rule that helps prevent illegal gun trafficking by expanding the category of firearm dealers who are required to obtain a license and perform background checks on potential buyers. Raoul and the coalition filed an amicus brief (https://ilag-dev.dotcms.cloud/dA  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Sept. 27 -- Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell issued the following news release on Sept. 26, 2024: * * * AGs Support the Caribbean Arms Trafficking Causes Harm (CATCH) Act to Help Stop Gun Trafficking and Reduce Gun Violence * * * Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell today announced that she has joined a coalition of 12 attorneys general in calling on Congress to take action to stop gun trafficking from the United States to Caribbean countries. In thei  more

LANSING, Michigan, Sept. 27 -- Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, D-Michigan, issued the following news release on Sept. 26, 2024: Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced the following appointments to the Michigan Women's Commission, Michigan Public School Employee Retirement System Board, Michigan State Waterways Commission, Governor's Educator Advisory Council, Michigan Finance Authority Board of Directors, Michigan Travel Commission, Michigan Board of Mechanical Rules, Michigan Tax Tribunal, Michigan Commit  more

GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan, Sept. 26 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan issued the following news release: U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan Mark Totten today announced that Chief U.S. District Court Judge Hala Y. Jarbou has entered a consent decree against Sacred Heart Rehabilitation Center, Inc. (Sacred Heart), a behavioral health and addiction treatment services network, as well as its president and chief executive officer, Paula Nelson, and   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 -- The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued the following news release: GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. Pero Family Farms Food Company, LLC, will pay $40,000 in compensatory damages and furnish other relief to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) lawsuit, the federal agency announced today. The EEOC's suit alleged Pero Family Farms maintained a sexually hostile work environment at its Benton Harbor, Michigan, facility by allowing a male employee to se  more

NEW YORK, Sept. 26 -- The White House issued the following remarks on Sept. 25, 2024, by National Climate Advisor Ali Zaidi at the Yale Club of New York City on the Biden-Harris administration's progress in accelerating clean manufacturing: * * * As Prepared for Delivery Today, we stand together to lift up and reflect on the progress we are making as a nation - progress propelled by the hard work of the American people, endowed with the inventiveness to imagine a better future and inspired w  more