Corinne Ruff
Corinne Ruff joined St. Louis Public Radio as the economic development reporter in April, 2019. She grew up among the cornfields in Northern Illinois and later earned degrees in Journalism and French at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has since reported at the international, national and local level on business, education and social justice issues.
Her written work has appeared in a variety of publications including: Retail Dive, The Chronicle of Higher Education, U.S. News & World Report, C-U Citizen Access and The News-Gazette. Before moving to St. Louis to join the public radio family, she worked in Washington D.C. for more than three years. There, she founded the business podcast Conversational Commerce and co-hosted a weekly show on the public radio station WPFW about the intersection of higher education and social justice. When she’s not on the hunt for a good story, you can find her scoping out the local music scene and looking for good eats that don't involve whatever Provel "cheese" is.
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There’s a glaring disparity issue in industrial hemp production — just 6% of producers are Black. A couple in Missouri hopes to create the state’s first Black-owned hemp processing site. -
The wealth gap has widened to historic levels. Half of Americans hold just 2% of all the nation’s wealth, while two-thirds of it is held by the top 10% of households.
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Lee Enterprises, which owns the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and nearly two dozen other Midwest newspapers, last week rebuffed a $141 million bid from Alden Global Capital, which has a reputation for saddling newspapers with debt and aggressively cutting costs.
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A St. Louis Fed economist says economic recovery from the pandemic has propelled demand for consumption, and it will take time for prices to even out.
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Racial covenants made it illegal for Black people to live in white neighborhoods. Now they're illegal, but you might still have one on your home's deed. And they're hard to remove.
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Businesses with more than 20 employees must provide up to two weeks of unpaid time off for survivors of domestic or sexual violence under a state law.
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We Are Jaine plans to offer opportunities to connect women with resources that will help them start and grow businesses in the male-dominated industry.
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Some industry leaders say it's time to build on the momentum of the booming medical marijuana market, but others worry the campaigns are premature.
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The new industry has generated more than $70 million in less than a year. State officials said that amount is good but falls in line with expectations.
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The waivers could lead to the forgiveness of more than $100 million in federal money that the state has tried to recoup from 47,000 Missourians.
