Business and Economic News

How are new restaurants opening up amid the pandemic? 
MPR News senior economics contributor Chris Farrell joined host Angela Davis to discuss the latest economic news. Then, we took a look at the Twin Cities dining scene. 
How a backyard chicken flock and a wild turkey taught a family about unity during a week of division
This year’s tumultuous election and the country’s growing division have led some people to worry that their relationships with friends and family members on opposite sides of partisan lines may never recover. One Minnesota family thinks the country could learn an important lesson from their backyard chicken flock.
Unemployment drops, but pandemic surge clouds hopes for recovery
U.S. employers added 638,000 jobs last month, as the unemployment rate dipped to 6.9 percent. A winter spike in coronavirus infections threatens to further weaken job growth.
Keewatin Taconite plans to restart plant, bring back workers
U.S. Steel plans to bring back hundreds of workers at the Keewatin Taconite plant in northern Minnesota shut down in May due to a drop in demand for iron and steel during the coronavirus pandemic, officials said Thursday.
News organizations rebuke Trump on election results claim
News organizations are strongly rebuking President Donald Trump for declaring on live television that it was a "major fraud" that he hadn't been declared the election's winner.
The American government once offered widely affordable child care - 77 years ago
Affordable, quality child care was hard to come by even before the pandemic and now even more so. It's not for a lack of ideas about how to fix it. Is this the moment those ideas are taken seriously?