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JACKSON, MI – Nichelle Austin was surprised to see so many companies offering job opportunities at U.S. Rep. Tim Walberg's job fair in Jackson Wednesday, May 29.
The Jackson resident recently graduated from Eastern Michigan University with a degree in communications in marketing and has looked at employers such as Allegiance Health and Meijer.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the House of Representatives urged the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to focus on routine cases and set aside more aggressive initiatives.
The admonition came on Wednesday as EEOC Chair Jacqueline Berrien testified before a subcommittee of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce about the agency's enforcement strategy.
The bill proposed by U.S. Reps. Tim Walberg, R-Tipton, and Dan Kildee, D-Flint Township, would increase from $2,000 to $10,000 a year the amount families can invest in Coverdell Savings Accounts for higher education.
The legislation would also increase the age of eligibility to withdraw amounts from the accounts from 18 to 22.
Educators and industry officials testified about the challenges of training workers for today's jobs during a rare congressional committee field hearing held Tuesday at Monroe County Community College.
U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., chairwoman of the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training, was joined by U. S. Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Tipton, a subcommittee member, for the session that spanned more than two hours and dozens of work force topics.
By: Nicholas Ballasy
In a House floor speech, Republican Michigan Rep. Tim Walberg criticized Senate Democrats for wanting a "balanced approach" to deficit reduction while offering a plan that "never balances" the federal budget.
Bedford Lions Club members last week celebrated a relationship and an anniversary with an establishment here they have come to know well.
They gathered at the Erie Restaurant, their usual meeting spot twice a month, and had southern fried chicken, the same meal they enjoyed the first time they met there 31 years earlier.
Congressional Republicans Thursday stepped up their criticism of the Obama administration over what they say is a free pass being given to defense companies facing major layoffs from looming federal spending cuts.
By: Charles Slat
U.S. Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Tipton, says the nation is in a fiscal fix because citizens have become too reliant upon government.
But the lawmaker says he's confident that in the weeks ahead progress will be made on framing a budget that includes a House proposal for surgical cuts that minimize the impact of sequester — massive automatic cuts in government spending across the board.
As a member of the U.S. House Education and the Workforce Committee, Rep. Tim Walberg spends a nice chunk of his time discussing educational issues in congress.
On Tuesday, Walberg spent time with educational leaders in Hillsdale County to talk about the issues facing county educators.
Walberg met with Hillsdale Intermediate School District Superintendent Mike Potts, HISD General Education Director Pat Dillon and Pittsford Superintendent Andy Shaw for more than an hour Tuesday at the Parke D. Hayes building.
By: Dan Cherry
A Purple Heart was presented Wednesday to the family of the man for whom the Durkee-Seager Post 550 American Legion of Onsted in part is named.
Michigan National Guard Col. Jim Bartolacci, along with U.S. Rep. Tim Walberg and state Sen. Bruce Caswell, presented the award for Pfc. Frank Durkee of Co. B, 3rd Infantry Division of the U.S. Army, who died in 1918 while serving during World War I. The military award was presented to Durkee’s great-nephews, Richard and Scott Durkee of Tecumseh, on behalf of their father, Royce, who died Tuesday.