employment

Employment for workers with disabilities has reached a record high, but one Kansas City mom says it's not enough. Local groups are taking a more individualized approach to hiring, and finding ways to erase barriers.

A culinary program at the reStart homelessness nonprofit is giving young people new opportunities to make money and find stability.

Cerner, the city's largest private employer, is closing its world headquarters in North Kansas City and Realization Campus in South Kansas City. The moves come just months after the company was acquired by Oracle in a multi-billion-dollar deal.

The four day work week is gaining popularity with employers around the world — including Kansas City clothing company Charlie Hustle.

Police departments in Kansas are struggling to attract and hire officers — often losing them to other jobs. The shortage is hampering departments across the state.

Police departments across Kansas are struggling to hire. In Dodge City, that means younger officers walking the beat.

Kansas City attorney Stacy Lake has a plan to do better than the incumbent. That plan focuses on putting county residents first.

There's talk of a possible recession, but Kansas City might fare better than other places due to the major employers it houses.

De Soto, Kansas, will be the home of a new $4 billion Panasonic plant to make batteries for electric cars. Officials promise the plant will create 4,000 new jobs and bring thousands of new residents to the region, but it took a lot of tax incentives to land the deal.

State officials announced that Panasonic Energy chose Kansas for the plant because of its tax rates and taxpayer incentives.

Along one of Kansas City’s most storied avenues, a new mission is taking shape in a 140-year-old stone structure, where Chef Shanita McAfee-Bryant is working to create a new, food-based solution to urban hunger and unemployment.

The COVID-19 pandemic sent everybody but essential employees to work from home. Now some office workers want to continue that model or have a hybrid work schedule leaving empty office spaces.