WASHINGTON — The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on Thursday advanced the nomination of former Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer to be labor secretary in a 14-9 vote. Chavez-DeRemer, a former one-term Republican member of…

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers added just 143,000 jobs last month, but the unemployment rate fell to 4% to start 2025. The first monthly jobs report of Donald Trump’s second presidency points to a solid…

TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly praised labor unions for contributing to unprecedented economic growth in Kansas and touted her administration’s economic development gains in a speech at an annual labor rally Tuesday at the Statehouse.…

TOPEKA — The streak of five consecutive months of increases in the Kansas unemployment rate came to an end in September as the jobless figure held at the 3.3% level reached in August. State and…

Growing up on a hog farm in western Iowa, Brad Lundell has seen big changes in the business over the decades. “Years ago, my dad and uncle had 100 sows. We had just a small…

Editor’s note: An earlier version of this article reported that TCF inmate/workers are paid 60 cents an hour. That was incorrect. That is the amount they are paid for in-house labor at the Topeka Correctional…

ALBION, N.Y. (AP) — Dairy farm worker Luis Jiménez gambles every time he drives without a license. Even a minor traffic stop could alert immigration agents that he is in the country illegally and lead…

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers dramatically stepped up their hiring in December, adding 312,000 jobs in an encouraging display of strength for an economy in the midst of a trade war, slowing global growth and…