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Vermont Business Magazine Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) introduced legislation Thursday to expand Social Security benefits and strengthen the retirement program for generations to come.

Vermont Business Magazine Weekly unemployment claims remained relatively flat again last week. By industry, Services were slightly higher than Construction, which had reported the most claims over the last few weeks. Most times of the year, Services record the most claims. The spikes in the graph below reveal the volatility in hiring and firing around the holidays.

Vermont Business Magazine Merchants Bank partnered with WARMTH again this year to help prevent low-income Vermonters across the state from going without heat this winter. Merchants Bank matched dollar-for-dollar donations raised for WARMTH throughout the month of December. Coupled with the Merchants Bank match of $35,000, the Vermont community raised $154,037.

Vermont Business Magazine One of Vermont’s Rising Stars is about to start marketing one of Vermont’s rising regions.

Vermont Business Magazine The University of Vermont now ranks among the top 25 institutions nationally for its pass rate on the Certified Public Accountants (CPA) exam, based on the latest rankings from the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy.

by Bill Schubart If current political events have taught us anything, it’s how vulnerable we all are to misinformation and innuendo. And if 80% of us don’t trust our own government, we must then ask how many Americans even understand how their government works or their own role in a vibrant democracy.

Vermont Business MagazineThe University of Vermont Health Network (UVMHN) and Central Vermont Medical Center (CVMC) announced today additions to their respective leadership teams. UVMHN announces five new Board of Trustees appointments, whose four-year terms became effective Jan. 1, 2017.

Vermont Business MagazineAttorney General Thomas J. Donovan, Jrreached asettlementyesterday with the Grand Buffet restaurant in Essex Junction. The investigation arose from security breaches where at least one employee stole customers’ credit card numbers. The thefts, which took place in 2014, involved at least 100 customers.

Vermont Business Magazine Mayor Miro Weinberger today released new principles and announced the pursuit of new initiatives to address the deepening opioid crisis in the region that has resulted in a significant 38 percent increase in opioid-related deaths in Vermont from 76 in 2015 to an estimated 105 in 2016.

Vermont Business MagazineThe Himalayan Cataract Project, based in Waterbury, is one of eight groups named as semi-finalists in100&Change,a global competition for a single$100 milliongrant from the John Dand Catherine TMacArthur Foundation.

​Vermont Business MagazineA $30,000 grant from theNational Life Group Foundationwill benefit youth food programs of theVermont Foodbank.The grant will help to support the Backpacks program, in which children are given backpacks filled with nutritious, tasty food to take home on weekends when they and their family might otherwise go hungry.

Vermont Business Magazine Norwich University President Richard W Schneider along with Distinguished Leader in Residence General Gordon R Sullivan, USA (Ret) ’59 will launch the Center for Global Resilience and Security (CGRS) with roundtable discussions focused on community resilience and security, on Friday, March 3.