Unemployment in El Paso County continues to surpass that of the rest of the state, according to a report released Friday by the Department of Labor. The unemployment rate in November for El Paso County was 9.4-percent, compared to 8.7-percent for the state as a whole. That’s a spike from an 8.8-percent unemployment rate for [...]
Pikes Peak Behavioral Health Group leaders will travel to the nation’s capital tomorrow to participate in a roundtable discussion aimed at finding treatment solutions to the invisible wounds of war: post traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury. Pikes Peak Behavioral Health Group plans to share new data on the effectiveness of its Peer Navigator [...]
Continue reading …The economy got what it was looking for in April: A burst of hiring that added a net 290,000 jobs, the biggest monthly total in four years. The improving picture drew so many more people into the labor force in search of employment that the jobless rate rose to 9.9 percent. The hiring last month [...]
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