The competition for workers in the current tight labor market is leading to innovative new ways to recruit new employees. Hazelwood is the first city in Missouri to join a growing list of cities across the country, offering financial incentives to draw new residents and support local businesses
to her house, carol passed by the guest cottage she d rented out as a way to help her pay expenses. it s 50 feet away from the main house and it has all of its own kitchen and bath and shower and rooms. reporter: it was comforting, in a way, to have someone else with her on the property, out here at the edge of things. man s name was jim knapp. divorced father. bit of an odd duck, some people said. but easy to get along with. at least, that s what carol told her friends. the man didn t cause any trouble. jim knapp was just sort of this free-spirited surfer dude from hawaii who hang ten. but she took him in as a border? it was my understanding that he was, had been diagnosed with cancer. and i think they sort of co-supported each other through a lot of the painful times that they were both experiencing. reporter: once inside her house, carol put together a salad for dinner, answered a few e-mails.
out as a way to help her pay expenses. it s 50 feet away from the main house and it has all of its own kitchen and bath and shower and rooms. reporter: it was comforting, in a way, to have someone else with her on the property, out here at the edge of things. man s name was jim knapp. divorced father. bit of an odd duck, some people said. but easy to get along with. at least, that s what carol told her friends. the man didn t cause any trouble. jim knapp was just sort of this free-spirited surfer dude from hawaii who hang ten. but she took him in as a border? it was my understanding that he was, had been diagnosed with cancer. and i think they sort of co-supported each other through a lot of the painful times that they were both experiencing. reporter: once inside her house, carol put together a salad for dinner, answered a few e-mails.
easy, days of summer. as she jogged the last few yards to her house, carol passed by the guest cottage she d rented out as a way to help her pay expenses. it s 50 feet away from the main house and it has all of its own kitchen and bath and shower and rooms. reporter: it was comforting, in a way, to have someone else with her on the property, out here at the edge of things. man s name was jim knapp. divorced father. bit of an odd duck, some people said. but easy to get along with. at least, that s what carol told her friends. the man didn t cause any trouble. jim knapp was just sort of this free-spirited surfer dude from hawaii who hang ten. but she took him in as a border? it was my understanding that he was, had been diagnosed with cancer. and i think they sort of co-supported each other through a lot of the painful times that they were both experiencing.