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Rep. Loudermilk on May jobs Report and Getting Americans Back to Work |
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In the News: Rep. Loudermilk Works to Restore Trust in Government One Customer at a Time
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Government Executive:
Public trust in government—especially the federal government—has plummeted in recent years. This has ominous overtones for democracy, which is founded on trust. No wonder a recent survey of corporate CEOs shows the nation’s top business executives believe restoring public trust needs to be at the top of the national agenda.
This steady loss of trust over the years has led to a flurry of efforts in government and in the nonprofit sector to find ways to reverse it. And in some cases, it has worked. For example, after its confidence-busting veterans hospital wait time scandal in 2014, Department of Veterans Affairs secretary Bob McDonald created a Veterans Experience Office in 2015 to change the department’s culture to deliver integrated services to veterans and collect and use feedback about veterans’ experiences receiving VA services. It set a goal of 90% trust by veterans in the department. While it didn’t meet that stretch goal, it did increase trust between 2016 and 2021 from 55% to 79%—a 24% increase.
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In the News: Jobs Report Misses Estimates with 559,000 Jobs Added, Unemployment Rate Falls to 5.8%
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Fox Business:
U.S. employers added fewer than expected jobs last month as extended unemployment benefits encouraged workers to stay home.
Employers added 559,000 jobs in May, the Labor Department said Friday, missing the addition of 650,000 jobs that analysts surveyed by Refinitiv were expecting. April’s reading was revised higher by 12,000 to 278,000.
The unemployment rate, meanwhile, declined 0.3 percentage points to 5.8%, its lowest since the pandemic caused businesses to shut their doors in March 2020.
Despite the gains, the U.S. economy has 7.6 million, or 5%, fewer workers from its February 2020 pre-pandemic level.
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In the News: Georgia Board of Education Asserts America is Not Racist, Will Limit Discussions Critical Race Theory
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Fox News:
The Georgia Board of Education is taking steps to prohibit schools from teaching that the U.S. is fundamentally racist and other controversial ideas associated with critical race theory (CRT).
By an 11-2 vote, the state adopted part of a resolution drafted by conservative think tank Ethics and Public Policy Center, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported. It contains language restricting external, private influences from changing school teaching — an apparent attempt to exclude diversity consultancies or activist nonprofits from administrators' decision-making.
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Rep. Loudermilk Supports Efforts to Protect Individuals Digital Identities Help Local Radio Stations |
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Rep. Loudermilk recently joined and cosponsored the following House Resolutions and bills:
Improving Digital Identity Act (Rep. Foster)
• The bill would create a federal digital identity task force including the heads of nine federal agencies and five state government officials, and the task force would be responsible for developing secure methods for federal, state, and local agencies to adopt secure digital identity technology.
• The bill would also direct NIST to develop a framework of digital identity standards to be used as a guide for government agencies to use when providing digital identity verification. The bill would also authorize DHS to make digital identity innovation grants to states.
Supporting the Local Radio Freedom Act, H. Con. Res. 33 (Rep. Castor)
• Declares that Congress should not impose any new performance fee, tax, royalty, or other charge relating to the public performance of sound recordings on a local radio station for broadcasting sound recordings over the air, or on any business for such public performance of sound recordings.
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