(LINCOLN, Neb.) -- In Nebraska, people age 50+ contributed 39% or $50 billion of the state’s total gross domestic product (GDP), generated $3.7 billion in state and local taxes, created more than 42% of jobs, and generated over $33 billion in wages, salaries and business income, spent over 250 hours caring for others and 113 hours volunteering on average per year estimated at $3.6 billion. – AARP Nebraska.

In 1963, the same year American businesswoman Mary Kay Ash started her cosmetics company, publisher W.W. Norton released “The Feminine Mystique – the book that has since been widely credited with launching the contemporary women’s liberation movement.

OMAHA — Four public hearings have been scheduled for Omahans to learn more about how to submit proposals to use millions of dollars available under the Economic Recovery Act.

The act, enacted with the passage of Legislative Bill 1024 by the Nebraska Legislature earlier this year, provides $335 million to assist North and South Omaha and other areas disproportionately impacted by COVID-19.