SC Workforce Shrinks To New Record Low
South Carolina’s labor participation rate – or the percentage of the state’s working age population either employed or actively searching for a job – slid to...
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SC Unemployment Rate Dips Slightly
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South Carolina’s unemployment rate slid from 8.6 percent in February to 8.4 percent in March, according to the S.C. Department of Employment and Workforce (SCDEW)...
SCDEW: More Layoffs
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Last month FITS exclusively reported on “another round of staffing cuts” coming to the S.C. Department of Employment and Workforce (SCDEW). The reason? An anticipated $7...
This Is Why S.C. State Is So Terrible
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For those of you unfamiliar with South Carolina State University, it’s the Palmetto State’s largest historically black university – one which is slated to receive...
SCDEW Facing Budget Deficit
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Despite three rounds of layoffs over the last six months, S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley’s Department of Employment and Workforce (SCDEW) is still hemorrhaging taxpayer cash....
Embattled SCDEW Leader Resigns
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Retired Gen. Abraham Turner – whose two-year tenure at the head of the S.C. Department of Employment and Workforce (SCDEW) has been an unmitigated disaster...
SCDEW Doles Out $54.5 Million In “Improper Claims”
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S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley’s scandal-scarred Department of Employment and Workforce (SCDEW) doled out $54.5 million in “improper claims” last year according to data from the...
More SCDEW Layoffs Coming
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S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley’s embattled, incompetent “jobs agency” is shedding at least seventy-five employees – its second major reduction in force in the last four...
SCDEW: A Poster Bureaucrat
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WORKIN’ HARD? OR HARDLY WORKIN’? Meet Tommy Ellis … He’s a fraud investigator for the S.C. Department of Employment and Workforce (SCDEW). In fact he’s...
SC Businesses Brace For Unemployment Tax Hike
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JUST IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS! There’s a major debate brewing between Nikki Haley’s Department of Employment and Workforce (SCDEW) and its critics over the impact...