Published by Nikki Palmer on Tue, 03/14/2023 - 3:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — America's employers added a substantial 311,000 jobs in February, fewer than January's huge gain but enough to keep pressure on the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates aggressively to fight inflation.
The unemployment rate rose to 3.6%, from a 53-year low of 3.4%, as more Americans began searching for work but not all of them found jobs.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Tue, 02/28/2023 - 5:00am
Dirty Birds co-owners, Moses Moseley and Dan Whalen, met working the line at Kitchen Table. A shared love for community and quality food pushed them toward ownership of their own restaurant. One day they looked at each other and decided to turn the words into reality.
Published by jason@omahadail... on Tue, 02/21/2023 - 5:00am
LINCOLN — More people have continued to leave than enter Nebraska from other states, and the loss is heavily those with an education level of at least a bachelor’s degree.
Published by jason@omahadail... on Tue, 02/21/2023 - 4:00am
LINCOLN — The first results are in, and spending on charitable gambling does not appear to have been impacted by the advent of casinos in Nebraska — at least not yet.
In the last quarter of 2022, Nebraskans wagered $97.2 million on keno, pickle cards, bingo and the state lottery, a nearly 5% increase over the months of July, August and September, according to a report issued Thursday.
Published by jason@omahadail... on Tue, 02/21/2023 - 3:00am
Kristy Jiayi Xu got an unwelcome surprise this New Year's Eve: The roof of her garage was leaking during a severe rainstorm in San Francisco. Delays in getting a contractor to fix the roof has brought unexpected costs to keep things dry, including a dehumidifier.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Tue, 02/14/2023 - 5:00am
Under the Free File agreement, Americans who make less than $73,000 per year should be able to file their taxes for free with one of the tax preparation companies that partners with the IRS. But this program has been historically underutilized, with just 4% of eligible Americans filing for free in 2021.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Tue, 02/14/2023 - 3:00am
LINCOLN — With Nebraska today unable to fill as many as 80,000 jobs, the statewide business chamber wants to amplify the push to boost the Husker tech image and overall workforce numbers.
“This next generation goes where the technology jobs are,” Bryan Slone, president of the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said Tuesday. ‘We need to be known as a technology state.”
Published by Nikki Palmer on Tue, 02/07/2023 - 4:00am
For most American workers who commute, the trip to and from the office takes nearly one full hour a day – 26 minutes each way on average, with 7.7% of workers spending two hours or more on the road.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Tue, 01/31/2023 - 5:00am
When the Federal Reserve convenes at the end of January 2023 to set interest rates, it will be guided by one key bit of data: the U.S. inflation rate. The problem is, that stat ignores a sizable chunk of the country – rural America.
Currently sitting at 6.5%, the rate of inflation is still high, even though it has fallen back slightly from the end of 2022.