WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the following document from Economics Daily: * * * Montana had the highest hires rate in October 2023, at 5.4 percent, followed by Alaska (5.2 percent), Delaware (4.9 percent), and West Virginia (4.8 percent). New York and the District of Columbia had the lowest hires rates, at 2.8 percent each. The hires rate is the number of hires during the entire month as a percent of employment. * * * Chart more PR

MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO, Virginia, Dec. 27 -- The U.S. Marine Corps Systems Command issued the following news: By Johannes Schmidt, MCSC Office of Public Affairs and Communication Marine Corps Systems Command As our revisionist adversaries continue to challenge the rules-based international order secured after WWII, the Marine Corps is shifting its strategic focus away from the counterinsurgency operations of the Middle East to the emerging maritime challenges of the Indo-Pacific. Four yea more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 (TNSper) -- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued the following news release on Dec. 27, 2023: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has selected Brian Towne as the new senior resident inspector at the Davis-Besse nuclear power plant. The plant, in Oak Harbor, Ohio, is operated by Energy Harbor. Towne joined the NRC in 2019 as part of the resident inspector development program in NRC's Region II office. While taking part in the NRC's training program, he served as the reside more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 -- The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued the following news release on Dec. 26, 2023: * * * Government Contractor Settles Federal Lawsuit Alleging It Failed to Provide Religious Accommodations and Retaliated against Employee * * * Triple Canopy, Inc. a Reston, Virginia-based company providing protective services to federal agencies, will pay a former employee $110,759 and provide other relief to settle a religious discrimination and retaliation lawsuit filed  more PR