US Business
U.S. Trade Balance With China Improves, but Sources of Tension Linger
Exports of goods to China rose 17.1% last year, as the Biden administration looks to reframe economic relations with the world’s No. 2 economy.
Articles by Erin Slifka
US Business
Temporary Jobs Propped Up January Hiring
Hiring of temporary workers accelerated last month, and without those gains U.S. employers would have shed payrolls for the second straight month in January.
US Business
U.S. Added 49,000 Jobs in January
The small gain returned growth to the labor market after a one-month dip. The unemployment rate fell to 6.3%.
US Business
Offshore Wind Farms Could Boom Under Biden
Wind project developers are pressing the administration to ease bureaucratic hurdles to building giant turbines off the U.S. Atlantic coast.
US Business
Everyone Wants Sushi to Go, and It’s Saving Some Restaurants
Eateries and grocers are selling more takeaway sushi during the pandemic, while supermarkets rush to train chefs.
US Business
New Amazon CEO Andy Jassy Can Either Help Workers and Sellers—or Automate Them Away
One secret of Amazon’s ability to grow rapidly: software and algorithms that manage its millions of employees and marketplace sellers—technologies the executive knows well.
US Business
Amazon Union Election to Proceed as Labor Board Denies Delay Request
Workers at an Alabama plant have until late March to vote in an election that could reshape the e-commerce giant’s relationship with its hourly employees.
US Business
The Battery Is Ready to Power the World
After a decade of rapidly falling costs, the rechargeable lithium-ion battery is poised to overhaul the car industry, disrupt the power grid and challenge the dominance of oil and gas.
Education
Atiba Bradley Named Missouri Southern State University’s Head Football Coach
(Joplin, MO) – Missouri Southern State University (MSSU) has named Joplin native Atiba Bradley as the fourteenth head football coach in school’s history. He becomes the first graduate of Missouri Southern to lead the Lions […]
Health Care
Freeman Announces New Chief Clinical Officer
(Joplin, MO) – Freeman Health System named a new chief clinical officer (CCO) in Jeff Thompson, who is currently Freeman Vice President of Pharmacy Services. Thompson will assume the leadership and oversight role on February […]