economy

Calls for reparations in this country date back to colonial days.

Howard Hanna loves being a chef with every fiber of his being, but he won't bring back the Rieger unless he can figure out how to make restaurants better for the people who work in them.

Republican Jake LaTurner and Democrat Michelle De La Isla don't see eye-to-eye on the issues that are important Kansans and Americans going into the 2020 election. Here's how the two line up.

During the pandemic, about 5% of urban dwellers across the country have picked up sticks and left the big city.

Kansas and Missouri reopened salons with strict pandemic precautions. It's a non-essential service that can't be done from a safe social distance. For our series the Next Normal, we hear a lot of understanding for pandemic precautions.

A massive backlog of unemployment claims, and the state's struggle to verify them, has left people already without jobs lacking the benefit checks that might have gotten in normal times.

Jackson County legislators will let voters decide whether statues of the controversial president will remain on public property, an update on how women did in last week's Missouri and Kansas primaries, and how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting the economy of the Show-Me State.

The plant, one of the biggest employers in Independence, makes small-caliber ammunition for the U.S. military.

Nearly four months after Jackson County received more than $120 million in federal coronavirus relief money, Kansas City has yet to see a significant portion of those funds.

Unemployed Kansas Citians are hurting more now that a $600-weekly unemployment supplement from the federal government has ended.

Jobless claims in Kansas and Missouri continue to soar and federal unemployment benefits are expiring, some residents of Kansas City's most dangerous neighborhoods could be eligible for a free Ring doorbell, and what we know about a possible COVID-19 vaccine.

In all the talking and planning about reopening after the coronavirus shutdown, there's a key voice being ignored: the worker.