by Kelly Zegers | May 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
Since 2011, Minnesota wholesaler Bailey Nurseries has tapped into the local refugee community to hire full-time and seasonal workers. It was a win-win situation, to fill open positions and help new neighbors adjust to a different life. “We just kept working with it...
by Kelly Zegers | May 7, 2019 | Employment, Featured
Hiring jumped in April, with unemployment down to its lowest rate in decades, giving President Trump continued political fodder while he takes credit for economic growth. Nonfarm payrolls increased by 263,000 in April, the Labor Department said Friday, solidifying a...
by Kelly Zegers | Apr 9, 2019 | Uncategorized
The Bureau of Labor Statistics will release its consumer price index report on Wednesday, April 10 at 8:30 a.m. Here are five things to watch in the March report: Gasoline prices will boost overall inflation A bump in gasoline prices is expected to be the main driver...
by Kelly Zegers | Apr 3, 2019 | Uncategorized
When Tamara Young moved from Washington, D.C. to New York City, she wasn’t expecting her eating habits to change much. But the 23-year-old finds herself living in what she calls the Bedford-Stuyvesant food desert in a four-person apartment with a kitchen that has...
by Kelly Zegers | Mar 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
Inflation remained subdued in February, despite a tight labor market, wage growth and tariff pressures. The consumer price index increased .2 percent from January, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said on Tuesday, and was in line with economists’ expectations. That made...
