Current natural gas costs reflect the impact of supply shortages and higher demand in the winter of 2021, which the company has been working to mitigate during this heating season. The new lower gas cost in February is the second consecutive monthly reduction that Nicor Gas has passed along to its customers.
Occupations requiring skills and training in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines – which are foundational for tens of thousands of well-paying natural gas and oil industry jobs – currently makeup 20 percent of all U.S. jobs. Officials maintain that STEM-educated women and men will lead the industry’s future workforce, so oil and natural gas advocates have maintained a great interest in initiatives that advance education in those fields.
The job fair will be held from 4:00 p.m. until 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, January 25 in the Community Room of the Frankfort Township Office, 11000 W. Lincoln Highway, Frankfort. It will include representatives from a variety of employers, including National Tube Supply, Michaels Distribution, PACE Suburban Bus, FedEx Ground, Silver Cross Hospital, Sunny Hill Nursing Home, Trinity Services, Inc, Walgreens, and the Will County Clerk’s office to speak with people about current job openings
According to the White House, studies have shown that the monthly payments have helped significantly reduce child poverty and child hunger across the country. The White House said the program would have had the potential to cut child poverty in half. The U.S. Census Bureau estimated that more than 21 million Americans didn't have enough to eat in early December, which was a five-month high.
NNPA NEWSWIRE — White House Senior Advisor Cedric Richmond, who served as Louisiana’s representative in the U.S. House for a decade before assuming his current role as the White House Office of Public Engagement Director, said during a Zoom gathering of reporters, that voting rights are the “bedrock of democracy.”
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “It’s about putting $6 billion into state and local government to improve safety on the roads,” Vice President Harris pronounced. “It’s about funding for local communities for better streetlights, ensuring crosswalks are safe. We’re talking about the elderly, the mother with the stroller, the father with the stroller – people given enough time to cross the street. It’s a very big thing when you talk about the quality of life and when you live in communities where they rely on public streets to walk to church, to get the kids to school, to get them to the bus stop.”
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “President Biden is working to bring long-overdue diversity to the leadership of the Federal Reserve,” Erica Lowe, the White House Director of African American Media, wrote on Twitter. “Lisa D. Cook would be the first Black woman in history to serve on the Board,” Lowe concluded.
NNPA NEWSWIRE — DOE announced that the Clean Energy Corps is ready to recruit an additional 1,000 employees using a special hiring authority included in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to help implement the Law’s historic infusion of $62 billion in funding and accelerate the nation’s drive to a clean energy future.
NNPA NEWSWIRE — When leadership reflects people of color, America is in a better place for opportunity and progressive ideas for Black people. Whether you’re looking forward to them, or dreading them, the midterm elections will take place in November 2022. There will be more Blacks and people of color running for office than ever before in the history of America, and there will be more millions in circulation, than ever before.
M/I Homes has acquired land for two new communities in southwest-suburban Plainfield, Ill., which together will bring more than 370 new-construction homes to the area.
