Over the past year, Kansas job growth trailed the nation, except in government.
The nearby table shows Kansas and national figures in various categories, for March 2018 and one year before.
Overall, Kansas jobs grew at a rate about half that of the nation. A notable exception is government jobs, where Kansas grew by 0.51 percent compared to the nation at 0.26 percent.
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Notes
- Bureau of Labor Statistics. State Employment and Unemployment Summary. Available at https://www.bls.gov/news.release/laus.nr0.htm. ↩