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A bipartisan group of Kansas lawmakers wants to know more about last year's police raid on a small town newspaper...developers build a $150 million Margaritaville Hotel in KCK... the Lawrence community mourns the shooting death of a high school student...a flight nurse from Wichita dies in a medical helicopter crash in Oklahoma...and the Wichita school district closes a half-dozen schools due to declining enrollment. These headlines and more, inside.

Kentucky’s seasonally adjusted preliminary December 2023 unemployment rate was 4.3%, according to the Kentucky Center for Statistics (KYSTATS).The preliminary December 2023 jobless rate was unch

"Health insurance should help people, not hold them back, or push them further behind when it comes to wages and income equality."

The rising cost of health insurance is an ongoing concern in the United States. New research from the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts U

As the nation observes Martin Luther King Jr. National Day of Service January 15, we pay tribute through census data and resources showing the civil rights leader’s impact on everything

U.S. Census data shows the foreign-born population made up 13.9% of the total in 2022 and suggests it hit 15% last year.

Why you should be glad and learn to love inflation.

There’s a strong circumstantial case that welfare benefits increased single parenthood to some extent, but to what extent is difficult to nail down using scientifically rigorous methods.

Black Americans, the group with the highest jobless percentage in the country, saw their jobless rate dip to 5.2% in December from 5.8% in the previous month.

I. Household Survey (Local Area Unemployment Statistics)