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A private equity firm shuttered rural hospitals in Missouri a year ago. It's now facing state and federal investigations, as well as lawsuits.

Minimum-wage workers in Missouri now make $12 an hour. While Missouri and other other states have raised worker pay, the Kansas minimum wage has stayed at the federal level of $7.25 per hour.

An audit from the Kansas Legislative Division of Post Audit points to fake unemployment compensation claims.

A legislative audit estimates there was $600 million in unemployment fraud in Kansas in 2020, and legendary sportscaster Bob Davis remembers his career calling games for the Kansas City Royals and the Kansas Jayhawks in his memoir.

The Kansas Department of Labor has blocked more than 100,000 fraudulent claims during the pandemic.

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.

People had trouble applying for benefits both over the phone and on the Kansas Department of Labor’s website.

Kansas City, Missouri, mayor explains his plan to reopen the city, Kansas Labor Secretary on backlog of unemployment claims, how to get a proper night's sleep during COVID-19, and a musical bonding while staying at home.

TOPEKA, Kansas — Suddenly tossed from their jobs by the coronavirus shutdown, people from across the state continue to deluge the Kansas Department of…