The U.S. Department of Labor announced Monday it has awarded $80 million to workforce agencies in 44 states and in Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the District of Columbia to provide re-employment and eligibility assessments.
With all things being equal in the work place, and despite the milestones women have achieved over the past decades, much remains to be done to achieve true professional gender equality, the results of the latest survey on employment by Universia showed.
Puerto Rico’s labor force had 25,000 fewer members in December, when compared to the same month in 2013, which could account for the lower unemployment rate announced by the Labor Department Tuesday.