In brief: Silverwood Theme Park holding hiring fairs

Silverwood Theme Park will hold hiring fairs on Saturday and on March 28, looking to hire up to 1,400 people for seasonal jobs.

Positions to be filled include ride operators, lifeguards, food-service workers, housekeepers, landscape workers and retail clerks. Some are entry level, suited for teenagers; others are supervisory jobs or positions requiring experience, a news release said.

Pay starts at $8.25 an hour.

Interested applicants can visit www.workatsilverwood.com to fill out an application, then attend one of the two job fairs “dressed to impress,” the release said. The fairs are held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Kootenai County Fairgrounds. Training will begin in April.

For more information call (208) 683-3400, ext. 4, or email hr@silverwoodthemepark.com.

Kraft recalls mac and cheese

NEW YORK – Kraft Foods is recalling about 6.5 million boxes of original-flavor Kraft Macaroni & Cheese because some of the boxes contain small pieces of metal.

The boxes have “best when used by” dates ranging from Sept. 18, 2015, through Oct. 11, 2015, and are marked with the code “C2.” They were sold throughout the U.S., Puerto Rico, and in some countries in the Caribbean and South America.

The recall covers 7.25 ounce boxes that were sold individually and in packs of three, four and five. It covers 242,000 cases of the product.

Kraft Foods Group Inc. said Tuesday it is aware of eight incidents of consumers finding metal in the boxes, but hasn’t been informed of any injuries. It says consumers shouldn’t eat the macaroni and should return it to the store where it was purchased for a full refund.

Jobless rate falls in 24 states

WASHINGTON – Unemployment rates fell in 24 states in January and rose in just eight, the latest evidence that hiring is strong across the country.

The Labor Department said Tuesday that jobless rates were unchanged from December in 18 states and in Washington, D.C.

North Dakota has the nation’s lowest jobless rate, 2.8 percent, a sign that falling oil prices had yet to cause major layoffs in a state that has benefited from an energy boom. Mississippi and Nevada each had the highest unemployment rate, 7.1 percent.

NEW YORK – Facebook’s Messenger app will soon let you send your friends money, the latest in a crowded field of services aimed at an increasingly wireless and cashless generation.

Services including PayPal, its Venmo unit and the disappearing-photo app Snapchat let you beam money to friends and family using smartphones linked to bank accounts or credit cards.

Facebook’s entry, announced Tuesday, is free, works with debit cards, and is available on Apple and Android mobile devices and on desktop computers.

The world’s largest social network will process the payments and emphasized the service’s security features.

Federal debt limit announced

WASHINGTON – After a year with no cap on government borrowing, the federal debt limit has come back into force.

The new limit – $18.133 trillion to be exact – was announced by the Treasury Department on Tuesday. Treasury said the government’s total borrowing stands $25 million below the new limit.

Even before the debt limit went back into effect, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew began taking a series of moves, such as removing investments from government pension funds, to keep the government operating without breaching the new limit.