Restaurant Wages Up 21%
Arkansas Division of Workforce Services shows wages have grown almost 21% since the pandemic. read more >
Arkansas Division of Workforce Services shows wages have grown almost 21% since the pandemic. read more >
Though many of the demands of SAG-AFTRA and the WGA are longstanding, much of the current dispute gathered force in the helter-skelter days of the pandemic. read more >
Authorities say Billy Joe Taylor of Lavaca used the money to fund a lavish lifestyle, purchasing luxury automobiles including a Rolls Royce. read more >
Robson, who was previously the symphony's artistic director, said being chosen for the role is "the honor of a lifetime." read more >
Still, the bank's latest Global Economic Prospects report marks an upgrade from its previous forecast in January. That estimate had envisioned worldwide growth of just 1.7% this year. read more >
In 2020-21, large cities in the United States, those with populations of 250,000 and above, experienced a population loss of 1%, the first year in the 21st century in which large cities saw a decline. read more >
CEO William Dillard II touted a $1.8 billion return for shareholders over the past three years. read more >
Over the last three years, millions of taxpayer dollars were pumped into the National Health Service Corps to hire thousands more doctors and nurses willing to serve the country's most desperate regions during the COVID-19 pandemic in exchange for forgiving medical school debts. Now, with the health emergency over, the program's expansion is in jeopardy – even as people struggle to get timely and quality care because of an industry-wide dearth of workers. read more >
The announcement, made more than three years after WHO declared the coronavirus an international crisis, offers a coda to a pandemic that stirred fear and suspicion, hand-wringing and finger-pointing across the globe. read more >
Researchers, nonprofit professionals and volunteers offer a variety of explanations for the decline, including the COVID-19 pandemic and economic woes. read more >
Patient revenue increased in 2022, even though patient volume hasn't quite returned to pre-pandemic levels. read more >
After the trauma and burnout caused by the covid-19 pandemic, the Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare developed an initiative for health care leaders improve employee health, patient care. read more >
Several of the plaintiffs are the spouses or children of Tyson workers who died after contracting COVID. read more >
The news wasn't received well by investors. Shares of the company plummeted 30% Wednesday morning. read more >
One year after it began being enforced nationwide on Feb. 20, 2022, the vaccination requirement affecting an estimated 10 million health care workers is the last remaining major mandate from President Joe Biden's sweeping attempt to boost national vaccination rates. read more >
An analysis by The Associated Press, Stanford University's Big Local News project and Stanford education professor Thomas Dee found an estimated 230,000 students in 21 states whose absences could not be accounted for. read more >
Experts aren't sure at this point if the dramatic pull of the South is a short-term change spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic or a long-term trend, or even what impact it will have on the reallocation of political power through redistricting after the 2030 census. read more >
Major drugstore chains have raised pay and dangled signing bonuses to add employees. They're also emphasizing the lunch breaks and sending routine prescription work to other locations to improve conditions in their pandemic-battered pharmacies. read more >
More than two and a half years into the pandemic in a world yearning for normalcy, many workers are fed up and don't want to go back to the way things were. read more >
More than 70% of Arkansans who died from COVID-19 since February 2021 were not fully vaccinated. read more >
