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It’s true. The State of Tennessee has officially declared that from this point forward it will accept only less educated student applicants for state, county and city jobs in the Volunteer State. Why would the kindly folks in Nashville make such a stupid rule? Well, it’s all about control, you see. The state controls the less educated kids and they don’t control the ones that show higher academic aptitude. It really is just that simple. It has come to pass that the State of Tennessee has officially invalidated the high school diplomas of thousands of home-schooled Tennessee kids, at least...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday appointed two former aides to well-paying state jobs, less than two weeks after ordering spending cuts to most state agencies. The state faces a multibillion dollar budget deficit over the next year-and-a-half. His latest appointments benefited a former speech writer and an assistant to Schwarzenegger's chief of staff. Jeffrey Danzinger, 47, of Fair Oaks, who was deputy communications director and chief speechwriter for the governor until 2006, is moving from being a member of the Integrated Waste Management Board to serving as an adviser to the board. His pay will be $103,603 in his new...

SACRAMENTO — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, once a critic of patronage in government, has rewarded 29 aides from his reelection campaign with state jobs, promotions and hefty raises. Jeffrey Wyly left the state labor agency last spring to work for the governor's reelection. After Schwarzenegger won, Wyly returned to the agency with a promotion and a $20,304 raise. At 26, Wyly is now paid $75,000 a year — a 37% bump — to help enact Schwarzenegger's labor agenda. Administration staffers from the governor's first term who were employed by Californians for Schwarzenegger in 2006 today earn an average 27% more than...

State-by-State Jobs Data June 18 the government released May jobs figures for states across the country - and the news is good. According to statistics released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), job creation was up in 44 of the 50 states in the last year, and the unemployment rate was down in all regions and in 46 of the 50 states. Nationwide, the economy has posted steady job gains for each of the last nine months - creating more than 1.4 million new jobs since August. The national unemployment rate stood at 5.6% in May - down 0.7...

Employment Increases Last Month: Arizona-8,400 JobsArkansas-2,800 JobsCalifornia-23,600 JobsColorado-1,600 JobsConnecticut-4,100 JobsDelaware-2,400 JobsFlorida-6,800 JobsIdaho-2,400 JobsIllinois-300 JobsIndiana-1,600 JobsKansas-4,100 JobsKentucky-900 JobsMaine-2,100 JobsMaryland-8,100 JobsMassachusetts-9,700 JobsMichigan-8,300 JobsMinnesota-7,200 JobsMississippi-200 JobsMissouri-100 JobsMontana-1,200 JobsNevada-3,800 JobsNew Hampshire-4,600 JobsNew Jersey-9,500 JobsNew Mexico-2,800 JobsNew York-25,400 JobsNorth Carolina-13,400 JobsOhio-1,100 JobsOklahoma-5,700 JobsOregon-6,000 JobsPennsylvania-10,700 JobsRhode Island-1,500 JobsSouth Dakota-1,000 JobsTexas-12,900 JobsVirginia-8,300 JobsWashington-2,800 JobsWisconsin-12,100 Jobs ("Regional And State Employment And Unemployment Summary," Bureau of Labor Statistics, http://www.bls.gov/news.release/laus.nr0.htm, 6/18/04) Employment Increased In 44 States This Year. "Over the year, employment increased in 44 states and the District of Columbia, decreased in 5 states, and remained unchanged in 1 state. The largest over-the-year gains in employment occurred in Florida...

<p>Meeting Gov. Gray Davis' goal of cutting the state's payroll by $470 million without cuts to state employee salaries or benefits would cost 7,000 state workers their jobs, legislative analysts told lawmakers Tuesday.</p> <p>If job cuts were applied evenly across the state, more than 2,400 of the job cuts would occur in the five-county Sacramento-area region. Thirty-five percent of all state employees work in Sacramento, Placer, El Dorado, Yolo and Solano counties.</p>