economy

Small businesses are looking for quality workers, but one in five may be closing their doors for good.

Small businesses are looking for quality workers, but one in five may be closing their doors for good, and books that could inspire personal change in 2021.

Letters from the Department of Labor indicate it's trying to recoup money it accidently overpaid to out-of-work people.

The Missouri Chamber Of Commerce And Industry prioritizes rebuilding the state's economy in its three-point legislative agenda.

This town won't be the same without the bars, restaurants, and neighborhood joints closing their doors right now. But the magnitude of the loss won't really hit us until we're ready to go back out again.

In "Severance," published in 2018, a fictional pandemic causes a zombie apocalypse. It also exposes the not-so-fictional anxieties of life in a late capitalist world. Two years later, we're all "fevered."

The lower cost, and the need for retraining, has often meant bad economic times translated into more community college students. But not in this coronavirus-driven downturn.

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.