The funding will in part help add digital specialists to the Delaware Libraries Social Innovation Team. (Photo of Milford Library).

State gets $4.8M federal grant to bolster digital skills, wrap-around services

Jarek RutzGovernment, Headlines

The state’s libraries plan on using federal grant money to add digital specialists to the Delaware Libraries Social Innovation Team, which helps Delawareans with social services like finding housing and jobs, applying for healthcare, becoming financially literate, and more.   “The Delaware Libraries Social Innovation Team holds Open Labs in public libraries throughout the state for individuals seeking just-in-time assistance with …

The filed request states that the embezzlement in excess of $180,000 from the Delaware Department of Labor’s Division of Unemployment Insurance was wrongly not reported to the state's citizens. (Photo by the Corporate Finance Institute)

Group files for investigation for lack of reporting on state embezzlement

Jarek RutzGovernment, Headlines

A nonprofit filed a request Wednesday to the Delaware General Assembly to investigate the failure by state officials responsible for reporting the act of embezzlement in excess of $180,000 from the Delaware Department of Labor’s Division of Unemployment Insurance. The Delaware Coalition for Open Government filed the request. That group aims for transparency and accountability in Delaware’s government — it …