LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Workforce development officials joined Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Thursday to announce an extensive Arkansas program to provide job training. Arkansas Department of Commerce Secretary Hugh McDonald said the grants will provide $48 million in workforce training in grants to 19 Arkansas organizations.

Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said she won't leave her post as the top elected official in Arkansas to serve in the new Trump administration. State of play: She held a news conference Tuesday to announce her plans to overhaul the pay plan for state employees.

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) announced she would not be joining President-elect Trump for a second term in the White House on Tuesday. “I’ve already announced my bid for reelection & I look forward to serving in this position for the next six years,

A new state employee pay plan will be proposed at the state's legislative session next year, Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said at a news conference Tuesday. Why it matters: The plan will cost about $100 million,

The governor announced an overhaul of the employee pay plan. Sanders said the new plan will streamline career tracks, consolidate job titles, and increase state employee pay to labor market rates. Arkansas Gov.

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Tuesday proposed an overhaul of the state's pay plan for more than 22,000 executive branch employees with a projected price tag of about $102 million a year.

Average salaries would increase 9.8% for 14,539 state employees, or about two-thirds of cabinet agencies’ total workforce, under a $102 million state employee pay plan announced Tuesday (Nov. 12)