Employers have incentives to hire displaced coal workers Kentucky employers are being offered incentives to hire workers laid off from coal-related jobs. Tonita Goodwin, president of the Madison County Industrial Management Club, shared that information at the group’s Friday meeting. Madison County has few, if any, coal-related jobs, but the coal industry has suffered thousands of job losses in recent months.
Jan. 20, 2014 - Richmond Register
Next five years called ‘window of opportunity’ If Madison County has a problem, “it’s that we think too small,” Richmond Mayor Jim Barnes told the Madison County Industrial Management Club on Friday. Barnes and Berea Mayor Steve Connelly both presented annual “state of the city”-type messages to the group composed of senior managers of the county’s manufacturing operations.
Jan. 18, 2014 - Richmond Register