Lebanon Manufacturer Seeks to Establish Claremont Facility
Claremont — The building off River Road that was constructed for a water bottling plant but never occupied soon could have a new owner. Lebanon-based New Hampshire Industries has submitted an application with the Claremont Planning and Development office for a site plan amendment to establish manufacturing at 35 Connecticut River Bend Road. Claremont’s website lists the application on the Planning Board’s Nov. 23 agenda. Ice River...
Pizza Hut Joins Effort to Offer ‘100,000 Opportunities’ to Youths
Dallas — A coalition of businesses that has pledged to increase training and hiring for “opportunity youth” is nearly doubling in size and now includes Pizza Hut. The “100,000 Opportunities Initiative,” initially announced last month by Starbucks, now calls for 29 companies to help at least 100,000 young people ages 16 to 24 by 2018. The program will offer youths who face “systemic barriers to jobs and education” apprenticeships,...
March Jobs Report Not Really That Bad
Before you get too glum about the March employment report, consider this: One of the main reasons behind the hiring slowdown was likely something that had little to do with the economy’s underlying strength. Beneath the disappointment of the economy adding only 126,000 jobs last month — 53,000 below even the most pessimistic projection in the Bloomberg survey of 98 economists — was an unusually cold winter (or technically spring?) in...
