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Bridgette Berkeley takes care of a patient in the ICU at Ogden Regional Medical Center recently. She graduated in July and says she knows she’s lucky to have gotten a job in her field so quickly. One thing that helped was that hospital officials knew her work ethic, as she worked as a secretary and a nursing assistant at the hospital while in school. (NICHOLAS DRANEY/Standard-Examiner)

Economy hides possible impending shortage of nurses

Last updated Thursday, April 12, 2012 - 9:14am

SOUTH OGDEN — When Bridgette Berkeley goes to work as an intensive care unit nurse at Ogden Regional Medical Center, she feels fortunate.

A July nursing graduate from Stevens-Henager College, Berkeley said she’s bucking the trend to already have the job she wants such a short time after graduation.

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Proposed rules threaten age-old role for kids on family farms

Molly A.K. Connors Concord Monitor

Last updated Tuesday, February 21, 2012 - 4:31pm

WESTMORELAND, N.H. -- Olivia and Victoria Briggs help on their family's New Hampshire dairy farm a few days a week during the school year and more in the summer. The sisters, 12 and 8 years old, milk cows, help repair fences and sometimes ride in tractors.

"It's like a fair," said Olivia, a sixth-grader. "Except every one of (the animals) is yours."

But if parents Dana and Tiffany Briggs eventually incorporate Bo-Riggs Cattle Co. to protect the farm from liability, as countless other farming families have done, proposed U.S. Department of Labor regulations might prevent the girls from continuing much of their work here and on their grandparents' farm. It's work others have done for generations.

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Feds propose rules to protect young farm workers

Ann Belser Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Last updated Tuesday, December 13, 2011 - 3:05pm

Farming is a dangerous way to make a living.

Livestock can be unpredictable and injure caregivers; farmers use heavy machinery that can tip and crush them; silos that store grain can become death traps that suffocate workers.

Each year, according to the National Child Labor Coalition, 30 children are killed working on farms. Twelve of those are hired help.

The Washington, D.C.-based coalition of unions, child-welfare organizations and human rights groups noted in testimony presented to support tighter regulations, "In 2006, an estimated 5,800 children and adolescents were injured while performing farm work. Every summer young farm workers are run over or lose limbs to tractors and machinery. Heat stress and pesticides pose grave dangers."

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(MARCIO JOSE SANCHEZ/The Associated Press) Demonstrators raise their hands as they vote on petitions at Sproul Plaza on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2011 in Berkeley, Calif. Protesters have descended upon the campus after ReFund California, a coalition of student groups and university employee unions, called for a campus strike to protest banks and budget cuts to higher education.

Former US Labor head Reich addresses Occupy crowd

Lisa Leff, Terence Chea The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - 8:34am

BERKELEY, Calif. — Anti-Wall Street activists began rebuilding their tent encampment on the steps of the University of California, Berkeley student plaza Tuesday and cheered wildly when former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich implored them to take a moral stand against the very rich owning so much of America’s wealth.

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Ronnie Kerr cuts a piece of tile at some low-income housing in Ogden on Wednesday. The construction is part of the YouthBuild program at Ogden-Weber Tech, which helps high school dropouts between 16 and 24 earn their diplomas while also learning some construction skills.

Home-building program helps youths learn job skills

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, November 15, 2011 - 12:27am

OGDEN -- On a frosty fall weekday morning, a dozen or so young men could see their breath as they unloaded construction equipment from the Ogden-Weber Tech truck.

They'd spend the next few hours laying bathroom tile, and fastening white baseboard around the kitchen laminate flooring they had installed to replace torn linoleum. A new lighting fixture went up, and a modest, formerly dingy apartment began to take on the glow of a small, but proud, home.

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Ogden-Clearfield job growth tops in U.S.

Scott Schwebke Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, September 29, 2011 - 5:40am

OGDEN -- Weber, Davis and Morgan counties are leading major metropolitan areas in the percentage of job growth, according to research compiled by a national business publication.

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Grant to help OWATC educate school dropouts

Rachel J. Trotter Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, July 31, 2011 - 9:57pm

OGDEN -- By this time next year, 36 high school dropouts will have high school degrees and a marketable trade to literally build up the community.

The Ogden-Weber Applied Technology College received a $1.1 million grant from the Department of Labor for a YouthBuild program that takes high school dropouts between the ages of 16 and 24 and helps them earn a GED or high school diploma and complete a construction trade course.

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