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The number of people applying for unemployment benefits last week declined to the lowest level since the pandemic began in March 2020, The Wall Street Journal reported Oct. 28.

Maine is pursuing tuition support programs that will provide financial support to allow more people to become medical professionals, part of initiatives to strengthen the state's healthcare workforce, Gov. Janet Mills announced Oct. 25.

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Luminis Health is offering a bonus to full-time bedside registered nurses with more than two decades of experience, part of a $29 million investment in employee recruitment and retention, the Annapolis, Md.-based health system said Oct. 26.

As more workers have quit during the Great Resignation and workers have charted new courses for themselves, more people have realized that the "normal" rules of job-hunting no longer apply. Here are some lessons learned from hundreds of workers who…

Patients with mental health crises are having to wait days to get beds in Georgia, Virginia and Texas as public facilities feel the strain of understaffing and the pandemic, NBC News reported Oct. 24. 

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