Economic forecasting meets Sir Isaac Newton in the 50-state employment growth outlook released this week by IHS Global Insight. Those of you who stayed awake during elementary physics will recall how Newton posited that for every action there is an equal and…

The U.S. House of Representatives Tuesday night  approved a bill that would extend unemployment benefits for 13 weeks to jobless workers in 25 states, including Illinois and Missouri. The measure, which will aid  displaced workers residing in states where the jobless rate has exceeded 8.5…

The United States Department of Labor announced Monday an agreement that calls on  QuikTrip to pay back wages to 3,819 current and former employees of the convenience stores the Tulsa-based corporation operates in Illinois, Missouri and seven other states.

The settlement, totalling $747,729, will compensate…

The January unemployment rate in Illinois jumped to 7.9 percent, a increase of slightly more than half a percentage point over the 7.2 percent jobless numbers the state recorded in December.

The seasonally adjusted unemployment figures were released Wednesday morning by…

It’s a sad commentary on the state of the economy when a revelation that a company i hiring rises to the level of a news story.

But, hey, it’s the times we live in. So….

Kansas City-based engineering firm Burns & McDonnell…

The effort to reclaim the thousands of local jobs lost during the economic decline will move Tuesday –  if ever-so-briefly — from unemployment offices and workforce retraining centers to the streets on Tuesday in a march to “Put America Back…

The downturn in the economy continued to be reflected in the region’s jobless rate, with a government survey showing 30,000 more unemployed in December than there were in the last month of 2007.

The figures, released today by the federal Bureau…