Unemployment Rates for Southeast Kansas May be Improving
Southeast Kansas Business Journal Posted: 9/1/2010 Kansas unemployment rose to 6.9% in May of this year compared to 6.2% in April and only 4.1% last year, according to the Department of Labor. That means approximately 104,000 people in the state are out of work, but conditions may be improving because the number of first-time unemployment [...]
Foodservice Packaging Sales Expected to Increase
Southeast Kansas Business Journal Posted 11/1/2010 Billions of single-use foodservice packaging products are used by consumers in this country every year, making them America’s most universal consumer product. In one of several recent surveys done by the Foodservice Packaging Institute (FPI), 82 percent of foodservice packaging manufacturers in North America expect their sales volumes to [...]
Variety the Key to Economic Success
By Olive L. Sullivan BAXTER SPRINGS, Kan. — One of the keys to success in a small town (population 4,602) is that everyone pitches in to get things done. With that in mind, Bert Kellum of King Rey Kellum Real Estate, has spent 10 years volunteering on the economic development council for Baxter Springs. “As [...]
Business Lunch Review of Cafe on the Route
By Olive L. Sullivan BAXTER SPRINGS — For more than a century, the town of Baxter Springs has been accommodating itself to all sorts of people, from pioneers to soldiers to miners, and now to tourists who come to historic Route 66 for a taste of small town Americana. Like the town itself, Café on [...]
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