Work Force Development
Posted Septerber 5, 2023 Hunt Midwest’s Heartland Logistics Park gains another tenet as Standard Motor Products, Inc. will open a new national distribution center at the Shawnee location. Standard Motor Products will lease the 574,732-square-foot, Class A cross-dock facility in…
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Posted August 30, 2023 Cigna Healthcare will be trimming its footprint on Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchanges next year and will not be providing healthcare plans for Kansas and Missouri in 2024. Despite the insurance company cutting two states from…
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Posted August 28, 2023 Based on the latest consumer price index from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, weekly earnings have increased to 3.5 percent year-over-year since July. However, the Federal Reserve is cautious about wage hikes and could affect its…
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Posted August 28, 2023 Tenth District services activity remained flat in August, unchanged from July, and firms expect to see growth at a modest rate in the coming months, according to the Tenth District August 2023 Services Survey. The month-over-month…
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Posted August 28, 2023 T-Mobile US Inc. CEO Mike Sievert informed the wireless carrier’s employees that the company will be laying off close to 5,000 workers, in a memo sent last week. The layoffs would account for nearly 7 percent…
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Posted August 24, 2023 Creative Planning announced its acquisition of Minneapolis-based CTB Financial Services, Ltd., marking the wealth management firm’s third acquisition this year. CTB will add support to Creative Planning’s already bolstered tax planning with investment management services. “Having…
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Posted August 23, 2023 As a strategy to avoid valued nurses potentially leaving their profession, Saint Luke's Healthcare System has provided its nurses with a way to ease their burnout through virtual means. Saint Luke's Healthcare has nurses offering to…
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Posted August 21, 2023 Trucking firm Estes Express has submitted a $1.3 billion bid to acquire bankrupt Yellow Corp's shipment centers, according to a court hearing held last week. The Virginia-based firm Estes proposed a bankruptcy loan as part of…
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Posted August 21, 2023 The monthly labor reports for Kansas and Missouri show continued soothing of the market as inflation continues to abate. Kansas reported an increase in real hourly earnings while Missouri received a small percentage increase in unemployment.…
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Posted August 14, 2023 Wagner Logistics, a supply chain management provider based in North Kansas City, announced a partnership with Veryable, an on-demand marketplace for manufacturing, logistics and warehousing labor. The partnership was announced Tuesday. The partnership will allow Wagner…
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