Tight labor market

Apple is the latest big employer to announce it's hiking hourly pay. The market for in-person work is especially competitive.

That was down slightly from September, but still high. Some say watch that figure to know what will happen to the economy in 2022.

“Clean slate” laws call for updating court databases and creating algorithms to automatically clear records for minor offenses.

Higher costs for labor and supplies are increasing price tags.

“We're not there yet,” said Kurt Loudenback, CEO of Grand Prairie Foods. “But we feel pretty optimistic about 2021.”

The Census Bureau is offering higher wages and pulling workers in from neighboring states.

But striking the right balance to meet demand is tricky this year.

Workers' bargaining power is greater.

The National Restaurant association projects that sales will grow by 4 percent this year. Celebrity chefs and Instagram foodie streams all point to an industry on the upswing. But staffing restaurants isn’t easy these days. Susan Spicer runs three restaurants in New Orleans, and says this is in part because her industry gets a bad […]