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Kansas unemployment rate hits five-year low, but 2013 job growth lags behind Missouri
tax cuts on the Kansas job market.
Here, without comment, are the
Bureau of Labor Statisticsseasonally-adjusted numbers (based on the more generous Current Employment Statistics, not the Current Population Survey).
The Brownback tax cuts became effective in January 2013.
KANSAS(with tax cuts)
Total non-farm employment: 12/12:1,365,900
12/13:1,375,900
One-year job growth:10,000
One-year job growth rate:.7 percent
Unemployment rate: 12/12:5.5 percent
12/13:4.9 percent
MISSOURI(without tax cuts)
Total non-farm employment 12/12:2,687,900
12/13:2,721,800
One-year job growth:33,900
One-year job growth rate:1.3 percent
Unemployment rate: 12/12:6.6 percent
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