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State’s Unemployment Rate Lowest Since Records Began
Manchester Homeless Shelter To Close
Defiant Trump Vows To Investigate Biden Family
Ole Romero, 38, of Charleston, South Carolina, drowned near Arrowhead Point Road on Newfound Lake in Bristol on June 12.
New Hampshire State Police Troop F and Marine Patrol joined Bristol police and fire-rescue personnel, along with New Hampshire Fish and Game, in responding to the 6:15 p.m. report of a swimmer who had gone into the water without returning to shore.
Fire department personnel in a rescue boat located the victim about 140 feet from the shore and took him to a waiting ambulance in Wellington State Park, but lifesaving measures were unsuccessful and Romero was pronounced dead at the scene.
Marine Patrol is continuing to investigate the death, but it is not considered to be suspicious.
State’s Unemployment Rate Lowest Since Records Began
New Hampshire Employment Security reported that the state’s jobless rate fell to 1.9 percent in May, the lowest monthly figure since 1976 when the Bureau of Labor Statistics first published its reports.
New Hampshire’s unemployment rate peaked at 16 percent in April 2020, when pandemic restrictions forced businesses to shut down or make job cuts. Just before the pandemic, the overall labor force comprised about 773,000 residents, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Today, there are roughly 765,000 people working, which means that many people have dropped out of the job market. Some of them are older workers who retired early. Other workers are not participating in the economy in traditional ways, including some gig workers who do not consider themselves to be employed when responding to surveys.
Manchester Homeless Shelter To Close
Manchester’s Brook Street Women’s Shelter, which opened in February to help alleviate the city’s homelessness crisis, plans to close as the fiscal year ends because it has not attracted enough outside support.
Manchester provided enough money to the YMCA to keep the shelter open until mid-year, and Mayor Joyce Craig said the city is allocating another $100,000 to the shelter in its fiscal year 2024 budget, but YWCA staff members say they will need $550,000 to operate it for a full year.
Their hope of obtaining enough money from private donors and other government sources, such as the American Rescue Plan Act, has not materialized. Katie Parent, director of programs and community outreach at the YWCA, said, “Unfortunately, this closure coincides with the start of the next fiscal year, and a lot of those funding sources were overstretched and already out of funds.”
Manchester has announced plans to transform the Beech Street Shelter into a day engagement center with 40 beds and other resources for unhoused people.
Defiant Trump Vows To Investigate Biden Family
On the eve of his 77th birthday, former president Donald Trump continued to classify the 37-count federal indictment against him as “political persecution like something out of a fascist or communist nation,” and said, “Today we witnessed the most evil and heinous abuse of power in the history of our country…. They will fail and we will win bigger and better than ever before.”
Trump’s speech on Tuesday night before a supportive crowd at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club followed his pleading not guilty during his arraignment earlier in the day at the Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. federal courthouse in Miami, Florida, where the charges included willful retention of national-defense information, withholding a record, false statements, and conspiracy to obstruct justice. Outside the courthouse, there were boisterous crowds of both Trump supporters and detractors as he continues his candidacy in the 2024 presidential race. Concerns about possible violence proved to be unfounded.
The current charges and those he previously faced in New York have not seriously affected Trump’s standing in the polls, where he holds about a 40 percent lead over his closest rival, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. On Tuesday night, Trump vowed to appoint a special prosecutor to look into the Biden family, saying Joe Biden is “the most corrupt president” in U.S. history.
It is an odd statement from a man who has spent his life flouting the law with impunity.
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