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Excluding food and energy prices, which tend to fluctuate from month to month, so-called core wholesale prices rose 0.2% from August and 2.8% from a year earlier, up from the previous month’s 2.6% increase.

Anastasia Makhanova will study how stress, illness or worries about personal health may cause health care workers to show more bias toward patients from racial or ethnic minority groups.

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock has received $5 million in federal funding to address the growing drug and opioid use among youth inArkansas.

The number of newly listed homes for sale climbed 4.2% last month, according to data from Realtor.com. September’s jump was the biggest annual increase since the peak of the spring homebuying season, and helped lift active listings 34% from a year earlier, according to Realtor.com.

Taken as a whole, the September figures show that inflation is steadily easing back to the Fed’s 2% target, even if in an uneven pattern. That decline suggests that the Fed will likely keep cutting its benchmark interest rate this year.

Outside of the weather and labor strife, some recent labor market data has suggested that high interest rates may finally be taking a toll on the labor market.

The factory is seen as an important source of sterile intravenous, or IV, fluid supplies that had grown tight after Hurricane Helene hit Florida and several other states late last month.

Summit argued that the rate hike was necessary to enhance its aging gas delivery infrastructure and comply with stronger pipeline safety standards.

Dyson had led the sustainable energy firm since 2022. John Elkins, the company’s general counsel, was named interim CEO.

In a statement, the SBA said that it will continue sharing information about its disaster loan programs and assisting borrowers with initial processing and servicing loans. But if funding lapses, all new offers would be held back and delayed until program funding is replenished.

Three stores in North Carolina allegedly failed to provide intermittent leave as a reasonable accommodation

A former Helena police office is among those arrested in the scheme, which involved using patient allotments for people who were elderly, deceased, out of the area or incarcerated.

Arkansas Tech University has received $730,000 in federal funds to further agricultural education on the ATU campus in Russellville.

As many as 223,000 affordable housing units across the U.S. will see federal tax credits awarded in exchange for keeping rent low expire in the next few years.

Women make up roughly half of U.S. labor union membership, but representation in top level union leadership positions has lagged, even in female-dominated industries and particularly for women of color. […]

Do voters favor pursuing worker protections in trade talks, as Katherine Tai has done on behalf of the Biden-Harris administration? Or should the U.S. jack up taxes on almost everything it imports as Donald Trump has pledged to do?

The Little Rock private equity firm combined a group of acoustic, seismic, vibration and noise control companies to form Catalyst in 2020.

The labor force participation rate was 58% for Arkansas in August, while that for the United States as a whole stood at 62.7%. Michael Pakko, chief economist at the Arkansas […]

At its core, economic development involves policies and practices that encourage investment, job creation, and wealth accumulation within a region.

The Arkansas Digital Skills & Opportunity Plan received federal approval in February, and the state wants to get the programs started “very soon.”

Leaders at the North Little Rock Chamber of Commerce are emphasizing the importance of building workplaces where people want to go to work and to stay.

If Congress doesn’t extend telemedicine regulations for Medicare patients by the end of the year, it will deliver a sharp blow to an industry that gained popularity during the COVID pandemic. 

Gen Z employees will outnumber baby boomers in the American workforce by next year as retirements step up, and organizations face the challenge of harnessing young workers’ skills — or else.

Arkansas Business’ FOIA request has divided the state’s highest court. That wasn’t what we’re after.

“The goal of the event is to hire students to work in the power industry here in Little Rock,” said MISO’s Brandon Morris.

Daniels is responsible for managing the HR business partner and HR operations functions at Southern Bancorp.

The chicken wings restaurant coming to Little Rock’s Riverdale area has an altruistic aim.

This week’s million-dollar construction contracts and real estate transactions begins with the Artspace Windgate Campus in Little Rock’s East Village.

It’s the latest project from High Street Real Estate & Development of Fayetteville, which was incorporated in 2016.

A 16,000-SF retail project in Little Rock weighed in at $3.7 million.

One company, HomeSource Property Management of Charlotte, North Carolina, owns about 200 homes for rent in Washington and Benton counties.

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