After much delay, senators unveiled a nearly $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package, wrapping up days of painstaking work on the inches-thick bill and launching what is certain to be a lengthy debate over President Joe Biden’s big priority. read more >
President Joe Biden's administration is beginning to make $3 billion in economic development grants available to communities — a tenfold increase in the program paid for by this year's COVID-19 relief bill. read more >
President Joe Biden plans to sign an executive order that will reduce the ability of employers to prevent workers from going to rival firms and remove some of the state occupational licensing requirements that make it harder to land a job. read more >
President Joe Biden’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2022 includes $149 million for the Three Rivers Project, which officials say would prevent an economically devastating shutdown of the 50-year-old McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System. read more >
As of early last week, President Joe Biden’s eight-year, $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure deal appeared to be holding, but polarization in Washington makes the deal fragile. read more >
The Biden administration extends the nationwide ban on evictions for a month to help tenants who are unable to make rent payments during the coronavirus pandemic. read more >
Airports around the country will share $8 billion in federal grants to help them recover from the pandemic, which caused a steep drop in air travel and a loss of revenue that airports expect from airlines and passengers. read more >
Family farmers across the state worry how changes in the tax law could affect their plans to transfer their farms from one generation to the next. read more >
The U.S. Supreme Court has dismissed a challenge to the Obama era health care law, preserving insurance coverage for millions of Americans. read more >
Arkansas will give the federal government next month the state's overhauled Medicaid expansion proposal after federal officials blocked a work requirement, Gov. Asa Hutchinson says. read more >
Ransomware computer crimes have been around for a number of years, but recent attacks have put them squarely in the headlines. read more >
The sponsor of the Keystone XL crude oil pipeline pulls the plug after Canadian officials failed to persuade President Joe Biden to reverse his cancellation of its permit. read more >
Now is the right time to repair infrastructure and invest in it for the future, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg says marking the 50th anniversary of the McClellan-Kerr Navigation System. read more >
The future is not quite now for electric vehicles in Arkansas, but it isn’t far off. read more >
One beacon in last year's gloom was the nation’s renewable energy industry. Against all odds, the solar sector experienced extraordinary growth. read more >
Gov. Asa Hutchinson sets up a 14-member American Rescue Plan Steering Committee to coordinate the spending of about $5 billion in federal pandemic aid coming to Arkansas. read more >
U.S. employers posted a record number of available jobs in March, illustrating starkly the desperation of businesses trying to find new workers as the country emerges from the pandemic and the economy expands. read more >
In today’s political climate, even seemingly bipartisan issues like addressing the nation’s crumbling infrastructure can bog down quickly. read more >
Consumer confidence rose sharply for a second straight month, hitting the highest level since the pandemic began. read more >
The sixth annual Clean Jobs America Report shows the first recorded drop in overall jobs in the clean energy sector. read more >
