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Nebraska Department of Labor urges funding alignment for workforce programs, supports governor's transfers
Summary
Interim Labor Commissioner Katie Thurber told the Appropriations Committee the department supports the governor's FY26 recommendations, requests administrative flexibility for a workforce cash fund and flagged small variances on enterprise salary and health insurance items.
Interim Commissioner Katie Thurber told the Nebraska Legislature’s Appropriations Committee on the record that the Department of Labor supports Governor Jim Pillen’s budget recommendation and requests the committee adopt the governor’s proposed appropriations.
Thurber said the department’s role is to “create a skilled, stable workforce” through training, unemployment support and labor-market analysis and that the governor’s package “closely reflects a cost effective and efficient use of funds to serve Nebraskans.”
The department asked the committee to accept two…
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