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Announced last year, a southwest Missouri educational partnership intends to boost the number of nurses and other healthcare workers. Now, a key Christian university based in the area is joining the effort and expects to attract more students.

Missouri State University hopes to strengthen the bonds between employers in the Ozarks and highly educated, up-and-coming workers.

The Biden administration says the grant will support agriculture and lineworker training.

Jack McGee, business and economic development reporter at the Springfield Daily Citizen, joins KSMU's Gregory Holman to talk about his recent reporting on 2,000 job vacancies across CoxHealth and Mercy.

Laclede Literacy Council, member of AmeriCorps, provides free services in almost any type of literacy.

Workers at a Springfield Starbucks Coffee shop announced they were organizing back in June.

Ozarks Technical Community College held a ribbon-cutting Monday for its big new Plaster Center for Advanced Manufacturing. College officials and politicians praised the $40 million project. It’s intended to be a “game-changer" by meeting a shortage of skilled workers and creating a new pathway toward better-paying work.