While farmers in the Evergreen State enter harvest season, lawmakers thousands of miles away in D.C. are teeing up a budget ...
Inflation, reduced consumer spending and labor shortages top small business owners' list of worries, according to a nationwide NEXT survey of 500 business owners that also asked what they're doing to ...
The U.S. is experiencing a labor shortage, but renewed respect for, and investment in, apprenticeships and trade schools ...
Recessions hurt. North Carolina’s headline unemployment rate hit 11.2 percent during the peak of the Great Recession in 2010. During the COVID-era Great Suppression of 2020, it briefly hit a ...
Many dairy producers in Maine have trouble finding the workforce they need to maintain sustainable operations. Could robots step in? The University of Maine recently unveiled a robotic milking barn — ...
CHICAGO -- As Americans hit the road for the summer travel season, the travel industry is feeling the effects of the labor shortage facing many companies in the country. Jennifer Clark Fugolo, VP of ...
THE PRODUCE YOU GET AT THE GROCERY STORE. THIS JOURNEY STARTS ON A FARM SOME RIGHT HERE IN CENTRAL FLORIDA. YEAH, AND THE COST TO GET YOU THOSE FRUITS AND VEGETABLES IS STEADILY RISING. WESH 2’S ...
If you ask US hospitals and health clinics how they're doing, they might tell you that they're coping with a crushing labor shortage spawned by workers quitting during the pandemic and never coming ...