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Native American women make 51 cents for every dollar earned by non-Latino White men in 2021. It would take almost a full additional year to catch up on earnings, but their Equal Pay Day is being observed on November 30, the last day of Native American Heritage Month.
Sharice Davids, Kansas Third District Representative, toured the Gardner Justice Center Thursday, Oct. 27 with Chief James Belcher, Mayor Todd Winter and City Manager Jim Pruetting. The Justice center recently received federal funding to replace recording systems in some of their law enforcement vehicles.
On October 19, JCCC welcomed government officials to our Commercial Driver's License (CDL) training facility to discuss the College's role in alleviating supply chain challenges and meeting workforce needs, especially in the trucking industry.
Representative Sharice Davids hosted U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Marty Walsh during a Wednesday visit to Johnson County Community College's Commercial Driver's License training program.
U.S. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh said Wednesday in Kansas that he expects continued job growth nationwide, even as the Federal Reserve takes aggressive steps to reduce inflation.
Isabella Casillas Guzman, the Small Business Administrator for the U.S., visited Olathe-based Mid-State Aerospace, Inc., on Thursday.
Congresswoman Sharice Davids shared with students some ways that she's overcome self-doubt, what advice she'd give her younger self, her hopes for the future and more during a visit to Haskell Indian Nations University Friday.
For the last couple of years, a Kansas City, Kansas, man has been trying to replace the medals he had earned for his military service.
Frank Parra is a Vietnam War veteran. He was decorated several times for heroism under fire. But over the years, he lost track of those medals.
He never lost track of what happened. One incident made the news.
Frank Parra accepted a shadowbox filled with service accommodations Friday afternoon with a roar of excitement from his family, who crammed into a small congressional office in Overland Park.
"Some of these I didn't even know existed," Parra said, as Kansas Rep. Sharice Davids handed over the black box with colorful medals inside.
U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids, D-3rd Dist., took several actions recently to curb the growing threat of fentanyl, the number one cause of overdose death in the United States.