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Budget
leaders postpone unveiling
planned cuts in education spending
 House
and Senate leaders pulled the plug on a scheduled Thursday
morning meeting of the Joint Appropriations Subcommittee on
Education at which the panel was supposed to unveil its
recommended budget cuts for the public schools, community
colleges and state universities.
The panel’s scheduled meeting had been widely anticipated
because it was to be the first time education leaders would
get some firm idea how far the General Assembly might go in
implementing $290 million in spending cuts they had been asked
to identify. Read that story.
 'Votes aren’t there’
to pass a lottery bill
House
Speaker Jim Black (right) said this week that he believes the
"votes aren't there" in the crucial House Finance
Committee to move a lottery bill onto the floor of the
chamber. However, observers said it’s possible a bill
could be rammed through the committee if the Democratic
leadership uses its power to assign three “floaters” to
the panel who would vote for a lottery. Meanwhile, the N.C. Association of Educators announced its support for a
lottery because it said schools need the extra money that a
lottery would provide. And the N.C. Retail Merchants
Association came out against a lottery.
Read
that story.
State
Government News
ESC
flooded with applications for foreign workers
The
state Employment Security Commission received more than 3,700
applications during April from employers wanting to hire
foreign workers, an enormous increase over the previous year,
the agency said Wednesday. The April figure brought the
application total for the year to date to 6,106, which is more
than 15 times higher than the 396 applications the ESC
received over the same period last year. Read that story.
Meanwhile
. . .
ESC
ready to help you hire summer workers
Program
started to hear complaints about lawyers
Berry
urges employers to obtain free labor law posters
DOT
board awards $15 million in highway contracts
Economic
Development News
Locker
makes brings 300 jobs to Martin County
Penco
Products, among the world's
largest manufacturers of lockers such as those found in
educational institutions, health facilities and fitness
centers, said Thursday that it will
locate a new manufacturing facility in Martin County, one of
the state's most economically depressed, investing $11.2
million and creating 300 new jobs. Story,
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