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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.
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State officials announced that Panasonic Energy chose Kansas for the plant because of its tax rates and taxpayer incentives.
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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.
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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.
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The rollback of mask mandates and a return to meetings in the office brings back challenges for those who have a weak immune system or a disability.
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What was behind millions of us quitting our jobs in 2021 and how that is reshaping America's workforce.
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Kansas City Public Schools has regained full accreditation after a decades-long struggle. But while the district is celebrating the news, Superintendent Mark Bedell says they "have a lot of work to do." Plus, workers providing care for people with intellectual anddevelopmental disabilities have been quitting in droves during the pandemic.
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Unemployment rates are dropping across Missouri after a pandemic-driven downturn, but some workers are slow to return to the labor force.
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Launch Code is bringing Coder Girl to the metro. The program provides training to write computer code and the opportunity for jobs in tech to women only.
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Employers could have skilled, dependable workers for accommodations as simple as Braille stickers on work items.
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The claimants alleged that DST violated federal law by investing a disproportionate amount of their 401(k) assets in the stock of a single pharmaceutical company.
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The Missouri Chamber of Commerce and Industry is using $6 million in federal grant funds to train 5,300 new technology industry apprentices in the next four years.