Coming Sunday

Some sources estimate that the yearly cost of tired or sleep-deprived workers in the U.S. comes to more than $40 billion.

A research center in Spokane is trying to do something about it.

Washington State University Spokane launched its Sleep Research and Performance Center in 2004; the facility is one of the few in the nation that’s attacking the problem of sleep deprivation through field tests and lab research. The center will launch a field test this summer at Spokane’s HollisterStier Laboratories.

Read more about the work of the sleep research center in a story by Tom Sowa in Sunday Business.