President Joe Biden’s administration is moving aggressively to assist minority-owned businesses through the Paycheck Protection Program, rolling out initiatives to strengthen outreach to small Black-owned companies. It’s a timely and…
A New Albany, Ohio, music school offering piano, guitar and violin lessons racked up nearly $1 million in loans and $35,000 in credit card debt. A fine-dining restaurant in Providence,…
The Arkansas Senate on Thursday voted to refund the fines the state has collected from some businesses for violating coronavirus restrictions, as Gov. Asa Hutchinson prepared to make an announcement…
Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Friday, citing progress in the fight against the novel coronavirus, changed COVID-19 directives to "guidelines" and put a possible March 31 end date on the statewide mask mandate.…
Bouncing back from months of retrenchment, America’s consumers stepped up their spending by a solid 2.4% in January, the sharpest increase in seven months and a sign that the economy…
The pandemic has forced businesses to shut down and caused people to lose work. But preliminary data shows this recession is hardest on women--and even more so on women of…
Investments Will Benefit 5 Million Rural Residents The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced it is investing $42.3 million to help rural residents gain access to health care and…
Less than 60 days into his job as the new executive director of the Fort Smith A&P, Tim Jacobsen is optimistic about the future of the tourism industry in the…
The number of people in Arkansas hospitalized because of the coronavirus dropped Wednesday to its lowest point since the fall as the state added 803 new virus cases. The Department…
Arkansas on Tuesday lowered the eligibility age for receiving the coronavirus vaccine from 70 to 65, making shots available to another 115,000 people in the state, according to Gov. Asa…
Snarled supply chains, labor shortage thwart full reopening; ‘everyone was caught flat-footed’ U.S. manufacturers aced the shutdown of their factories and warehouses last spring in response to Covid-19. They’re botching…
The pandemic hit Arkansas small businesses hard. Some are coming back from the brink Three different businesses found a way to adapt, survive and maybe even thrive after the virus…
President Joe Biden is targeting federal pandemic assistance to the nation's smallest businesses and taking steps to further equity in what is known as the Paycheck Protection Program. The administration is…
Seventy-six of Iowa’s 82 critical access hospitals ended the last fiscal year with negative operating margins, an IowaWatch analysis of their most recently reported financial data shows. Only six critical…
In the hunt to gain access to Covid vaccines, large employers like Tyson Foods are faring no better than a lot of individual Americans. Tight supplies are leaving them mostly…
US stocks ended mixed on Wednesday, with the Dow closing at a record high and the S&P 500 and Nasdaq paring back earlier gains as investors digested the economic growth…
Inflation expectations are detaching themselves from reality, meaning markets might be overplaying the rise in U.S. Treasury yields, according to Carl Weinberg, chief economist at High Frequency Economics. Global markets…
Federal Reserve officials' view of the US economy improved in January as vaccines rolled out and Democrats pushed for additional fiscal stimulus, according to meeting minutes published Wednesday. Members of the Federal Open…
The University of Arkansas said Monday (Feb. 15) it will partner with state government, Shorter College in Little Rock and a private company to identify Arkansans hit hardest by the…
Grants have been helping towns where the financial bottom line has been impacted by the pandemic. It’s quiet along Main Street, partly because of the time of year and partly…