{"id":1183,"date":"2024-01-24T16:31:29","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T16:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/?p=1183"},"modified":"2024-01-29T15:58:47","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T15:58:47","slug":"help-wanted-taking-a-look-at-vermonts-workforce-problem-and-what-it-is-costing-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/help-wanted-taking-a-look-at-vermonts-workforce-problem-and-what-it-is-costing-us\/","title":{"rendered":"HELP WANTED &#8211; Taking a Look at Vermont&#8217;s Workforce Problem, and What it is Costing Us."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>FRANKLIN COUNTY \u2014&nbsp;Since 2002, Vermont\u2019s population has plateaued. Today we\u2019re seeing the repercussions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police officers across Franklin County feel unsupported, and they\u2019re looking for resources to meet the demands that come with higher crime rates. The Vermont Department of Taxes is forecasting an 18.5% increase in the education tax rate, citing a double-digit increase in school spending due to inflation, insurance rate hikes and new capital projects. At Northwestern Counseling and Support Services \u2013 Franklin County\u2019s largest human services nonprofit \u2013 one in six jobs are left unfilled. <strong><em>Read more\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Link to entire article:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.samessenger.com\/news\/help-wanted-taking-a-look-at-vermont-s-workforce-problem-and-what-it-s-costing\/article_f01a4f1e-b6e5-11ee-8375-872ff569a27c.html\">https:\/\/www.samessenger.com\/news\/help-wanted-taking-a-look-at-vermont-s-workforce-problem-and-what-it-s-costing\/article_f01a4f1e-b6e5-11ee-8375-872ff569a27c.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FRANKLIN COUNTY \u2014&nbsp;Since 2002, Vermont\u2019s population has plateaued. Today we\u2019re seeing the repercussions.&nbsp; Police officers across Franklin County feel unsupported, and they\u2019re looking for resources to meet the demands that come with higher crime rates. The Vermont Department of Taxes is forecasting an 18.5% increase in the education tax rate, citing a double-digit increase in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1185,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions\/1185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}