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A Kansas woman said early Tuesday that a message she got from someone threatening to sexually assault her one-year-old daughter prompted her to end the hunger strike she began eight days earlier outside the headquarters in Topeka of the Kansas Department of Labor. Re’Nae Pherigo, 29, of Wellington, withdrew so she could go home and protect her family, she wrote in a post on the 1,100-member "Unemployment Hunger Strike Supporters" Facebook page she created. That message appears to...

Kansas Department of Labor paid nearly $300 million in fraudulent claims last year Megan Stringer and Katie Bernard, The Wichita Eagle Feb. 24—TOPEKA — While Kansans who lost their jobs clambered to file unemployment claims last year to an overwhelmed state agency, the Kansas Department of Labor paid out at least $290 million and possibly as much as $600 million in fraudulent benefits to people seeking to rip off the system during the pandemic. Popular Searches The state lab...