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News Tipoffs - Alaska Editors Newsletter for Thursday September 12, 2024 ( 11 items )  

BLS - Southwest Region Issues Report Entitled 'Employer Costs for Employee Compensation for the Regions - June 2024'
DALLAS, Texas, Sept. 11 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Southwest Regional Information Office issued the following report on Sept. 10, 2024, entitled "Employer Costs for Employee Compensation for the Regions - June 2024": * * * Private industry employer costs for employee compensation among the four regions of the country ranged from $38.99 per hour in the South to $53.15 in the Northeast in June 2024, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.   more

BLS - Western Region Issues Report Entitled 'Consumer Price Index, Anchorage Area - August 2024'
SAN FRANCISCO, California, Sept. 12 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Western Regional Information Office issued the following report on Sept. 11, 2024, entitled "Consumer Price Index, Anchorage area - August 2024": * * * Area prices were down 0.1 percent over the past two months, up 1.5 percent from a year ago * * * Prices in the Anchorage area, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), declined 0.1 percent for the two mon  more

BLS - Western Region Issues Report Entitled 'Consumer Price Index, West Region - August 2024'
SAN FRANCISCO, California, Sept. 12 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Western Regional Information Office issued the following report on Sept. 11, 2024, entitled "Consumer Price Index, West Region - August 2024": * * * Area prices were up 0.1 percent over the past month, up 2.2 percent from a year ago * * * Prices in the West Region, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), increased 0.1 percent in August, the U.S. Bureau   more

Boxlight Settles EEOC Charge Alleging Female Manager Was Intentionally Paid Less Than Male Managers
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 -- The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued the following news release: TACOMA, Wash. Boxlight Inc., an education technology company headquartered in Duluth, Georgia, agreed to provide injunctive and other relief to a female manager following a pay discrimination investigation conducted by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today. In her charge, the complainant alleged that over a period of several years, she was  more

DOE Partners With 25 New Coastal, Remote, and Island Communities to Advance Local Energy Resilience Goals
WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy issued the following news on Sept. 10, 2024: * * * Energy Transitions Initiative Partnership Project (ETIPP) will engage communities in energy planning, natural disaster preparedness, and analysis of renewable technologies, including solar, wind, battery storage, and heat pumps. * * * Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) welcomed 25 new coastal, remote, and island communiti  more

New CDC Report Shows Suicide Risk Tied to Local Economic and Social Conditions
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued the following news release on Sept. 9, 2024: A new CDC Vital Signs (https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/73/wr/mm7337e1.htm?s_cid=mm7337e1_e) report released today highlights the role that conditions in counties, such as insurance coverage, broadband internet access, and household income, can play in lowering suicide risk. Compared to counties with the lowest levels o  more

New USGS map shows where landslides are most likely to occur in U.S.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Geological Survey issued the following news release: GOLDEN, Colo. The U.S. Geological Survey has released a new nationwide landslide susceptibility map that indicates nearly 44% of the U.S. could potentially experience landslide activity. The new assessment provides a highly detailed, county-by-county picture of where these damaging, disruptive and potentially deadly geologic hazards are more likely as well as areas where lands  more

NREL's Economic Impact Hits $1.9 Billion
GOLDEN, Colorado, Sept. 11 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory issued the following news release: The economic impact of the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) topped $1.9 billion nationwide in Fiscal Year (FY) 2023, according to a study by the University of Colorado Boulder's (CU Boulder's) Leeds School of Business. Every state in the nation felt an impact from direct or indirect spending connected to NREL, but the econo  more

SHI LECTURE TO HIGHLIGHT INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE OF SOUTHEAST ALASKAN WOLVES
JUNEAU, Alaska, Sept. 11 -- Sealaska Heritage Institute issued the following news release: * * * Speaker to examine how Indigenous knowledge can inform wildlife conservation efforts * * * Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) will sponsor a lecture this week as part of its ongoing fall series, featuring prominent voices in Indigenous knowledge, wildlife conservation and science. Jeffrey J. Brooks, Ph.D., a social scientist with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, will deliver a presentation   more

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Megan A. Smetzer Awarded the 36th Annual Eldredge Prize for "Painful Beauty: Tlingit Women, Beadwork and the Art of Resilience"
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 -- The Smithsonian American Art Museum issued the following news release: The Smithsonian American Art Museum has awarded the 36th annual Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art to Megan A. Smetzer for her book Painful Beauty: Tlingit Women, Beadwork and the Art of Resilience (University of Washington Press, 2021). Through extensive archival and museum research, Smetzer shows how beaders countered repressive colonial systems and sustained cul  more

Training Pilots for the Post 9/11 World
RANDOLPH AFB, Texas, Sept. 11 -- The U.S. Air Force Air Education and Training Command issued the following news: On Sept 11th, 2001, I was 18 and beginning my military career at the New Mexico Military Institute for a year of academic prep before attending the U.S. Air Force Academy. I was studying for my first class of the day when my mother messaged me saying something terrible was happening in New York. Since we weren't allowed TVs, and this was pre-streaming internet, I proceeded early to   more