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Expanding opportunity for all people is right. It’s also good business: Diverse businesses outperform non-diverse businesses . And, as the war on talent intensifies, attracting and retaining diverse and untapped talent must be a key business strategy. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I) broadly outlines efforts to create a more welcoming environment for under-represented persons. Businesses and communities that harness the potential of all people are the ones who will win. The Albany Area Chamber understands and endorses the importance of maintaining a vibrant and diverse workplace.
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In 2022 alone, there were over 200,400 registered apprentices in the construction industry, a substantial 77% increase over the past nine years. Construction is crucial to the nation's infrastructure and economic competitiveness. Nonetheless, recruitment challenges and an aging workforce impede the industry's growth. Albany Technical College is addressing these issues by preparing a skilled and robust construction workforce.
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ALBANY — The cleanup of a building that has been an eyesore for decades is welcome, but Albany officials are mostly in the dark about what’s going on at the former National Linen Service site. The building that housed the former business that rented and cleaned work uniforms has been near or at the top of elected officials’ cleanup lists for years, an eyesore with broken windows and possible contamination due
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to cleaning chemicals used near the intersection of two busy thoroughfares, South Slappey Boulevard and West Oglethorpe Boulevard. “I can say praise be to God,” Albany City Commissioner Jon Howard said when told of the cleanup on Monday afternoon. “That place has been closed for 30-something years. It’s really an eyesore. The saving grace was that there were bushes where you couldn’t see it from the road.” At the site, wood and other materials were piled and being moved. The debris visible from the road-
way Monday included a mattress and a large number of tires that apparently have been dumped on the site. And while several city officials told The Albany Herald Monday that they were not aware of any activity at the location, a city official said that Concrete Enterprises has a demolition permit for the site. An company official did not confirm purchase of the site when contacted on Monday. At the time The Herald wrote a
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ALBANY — In a lengthy presentation on Monday, Phoebe Putney Health System President and CEO Scott Steiner gave the Dougherty County Commission some large numbers to consider: $1.8 billion in total economic impact, $425 million in annual payroll, $56 million in charity and indigent care, and $59.3 million in other community benefits. The presentation to the commission also outlined the way the health system is working to improve care at its facilities and train nurses locally that will provide service in the future. “It’s a big impact,” Steiner said. “(That) $56 million is the cost of providing care to those who do not have the ability to do so. Thanks to your partnership, we’re able to do that for 18,000 patients.”
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