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Illinois’ Child Welfare Agency Continues to Fail Spanish-Speaking Families - ProPublica
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. Early last year, the Cook County public guardian grew worried that Illinois' child welfare agency once again was failing the Spanish-speaking families whose children were in its care. So Charles Golbert decided to conduct an experiment. For 10 months, lawyers from his office counted the number of new cases that involved Spanish-speaking families. Then the staffers checked how many of those families' files included a critical document that determines whether the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services mus...
Streamlining Labor-Intensive Administrative HR Workflows - ForConstructionPros.com
As many states deemed construction personnel essential, business leaders and HR managers had to adapt to changing business conditions over the past year rapidly. This included creating and implementing new risk management strategies to reduce the spread of the virus but staying up-to-date with evolving payroll regulations and remaining compliant with industry-specific, local, state, and federal laws. Looking ahead to the following stages of the pandemic, HR and business leaders need to focus on value-added tasks that will improve stabilizing the organization, instead of using manual or inefficient tools when processing information. Unfortunately, this reduces efficiencies across the company and prevents the company from taking advantage of the expected 5.2% growth of the industry forecast this year. While this output will be higher than the output level of 2019, it is still $1 trillion lower than what was expected without the occurrence of the coronavirus. This is why it ...