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Senior care affected by work shortage

LEWISBURG — The leader of an agency dedicated to helping seniors asked for help on Tuesday with now-common problem. Holly Kyle, Union-Snyder Area Agency on Aging (USAAA) executive director, told Union County commissioners that the shortage of direct care workers was having a serious impact on services. “On any given day, my agency has as many as 24 seniors and their families waiting for in-home care,” Kyle said at the commissioner’s work session. “It is not because I don’t have the funds to pay for the services, but because my home care agencies don’t have the ...

Report: Little has changed at casinos when it comes to worker diversity

A new report from state regulators shows that ethnic diversity among employees at Pennsylvania casinos hasn’t changed much in recent years. According to a report from the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board, the majority of employees across the state’s 16 licensed casinos are white, matching trends seen at the facilities for several years. During the 2020-21 fiscal year, diversity trends largely returned to what they were before the covid-19 pandemic impacted casino jobs. Last fiscal year, 61% of the state’s 13,870 casino employees were white, 15% were Black, 14% were Asian, ...

Logistics lag behind consumer demand ahead of holiday shopping

Shortages in supplies and labor combined with congested delivery lines and swelling shipping costs make for an uncertain retail market ahead of the winter holiday shopping period. Bucknell University’s Jimmy Chen, associate professor of analytics and operations management, said shoppers ...

Turner Dairy Farms is first in state to take advantage of shelf-life law for milk

Grocery shoppers with a habit of seeking out the milk carton with the longest shelf life soon will be able to reach even further into the future — at least if they’re fans of Turner Dairy Farms. The Penn Hills dairy is the first in the state to take advantage of Act 62, a recent law allowing “open coding” for milk. It allows producers to extend the shelf life of their product if its stability can be verified through third-party testing. And while it’s new to Pennsylvania, the rest of the country has been on board for quite some time. “Forty-eight of 50 states had a law ...

Corporate partner donates industrial robot to Penn College

About 50 Pennsylvania College of Technology engineering and electronics students per year will benefit from a recent addition to their state-of-the-art facilities, courtesy of Elsner Engineering Works Inc. The third-generation family owned and operated company donated a decommissioned Fanuc ...

US jobless claims tick up from near a pandemic low

WASHINGTON — The number of Americans applying for unemployment aid rose last week for a second straight week to 351,000, a sign that the delta variant of the coronavirus may be disrupting the job market’s recovery, at least temporarily. Thursday’s report from the Labor Department showed that jobless claims rose by 16,000 from the previous week. As the job market has strengthened, unemployment aid applications, which generally track layoffs, have tumbled since topping 900,000 early this year, reflecting the economy’s reopening after the pandemic recession. The four-week ...