KANSAS CITY, Missouri, Aug. 4 (TNSLrpt) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Mountain-Plains Regional Information Office issued the following report: * * * Business Employment Dynamics in Kansas - Fourth Quarter 2024 * From September 2024 to December 2024, gross job gains from opening and expanding private-sector establishments in Kansas were 69,958, while gross job losses from closing and contracting private-sector establishments were 61,651, the U.S. Bureau of Lab  more

DALLAS, Texas, Aug. 4 (TNSLrpt) -- The U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics - Southwest Regional Information Office issued the following report: * * * Business Employment Dynamics in Oklahoma - Fourth Quarter 2024 * From September 2024 to December 2024, gross job gains from opening and expanding private-sector establishments in Oklahoma were 80,656, while gross job losses from closing and contracting private-sector establishments were 73,255, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistic  more

KANSAS CITY, Missouri, Aug. 4 (TNSLrpt) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Mountain-Plains Regional Information Office issued the following report: * * * Business Employment Dynamics in Wyoming - Fourth Quarter 2024 * From September 2024 to December 2024, gross job gains from opening and expanding private-sector establishments in Wyoming were 18,894, while gross job losses from closing and contracting private-sector establishments were 18,048, the U.S. Bureau of L  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 -- Sen. Jack Reed, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release: * * * Congress Passes Reed's Bill to Curb Abusive Mortgage "Trigger Leads" & Stop Unwanted Spam * WASHINGTON, DC - After a late Saturday night legislative session, U.S. Senator Jack Reed's (D-RI) Homebuyers Privacy Protection Act is finally headed to the president's desk. The bipartisan bill, co-authored by Bill Hagerty (R-TN), targets abusive " trigger leads " -- a term for when credit reporting agenc  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (TNSLrpt) -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Servives Administration for Children and Families Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation has released 'Key Cross-State Variations in CCDF Policies as of October 1, 2023: The CCDF Policies Database Book of Tables,' a document authored by Margaret Todd, Katherine Hueston, Christin Durham, and Sarah Minton of the Urban Institute. This report, OPRE Report 2025-054, details how Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) policies  more