Kansas Unemployment

Kansas economic index falls in April
An index of leading economic indicators for Kansas fell in April for the sixth time in the past seven months.

The survey of supply managers' expectations for the next few months fell to 30.9 from 35.9 in March, in the Creighton University's monthly Business Conditions Index. A number below 50 indicates a shrinking economy.

New orders were at 27.1, production at 22.9, delivery lead time at 35.4, employment at 29.2, and inventories at 37.5.

Study author Ernie Goss, a professors at Creighton, said durable and nondurable good manufacturers are suffering. The latest unemployment rate for Kansas is 6.5 percent.

"I expect the state's unemployment rate to increase by another 0.4 percentage points before the end of the second quarter," Goss said....


State Democratic leaders are urging changes in state unemployment law.
The changes make the state eligible for $23 million of federal recovery funds.

Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley says last month's unemployment rate of 6.4 percent was the highest in two decades. But he says three to four million jobs could be saved or created in Kansas by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, so lawmakers should work to get the money...


Kansas unemployment rate highest in 26 years
The state unemployment rate for March was 6.5 percent, the highest in 26 years, the Kansas Department of Labor reported Friday.

The jobless rate also was up from February’s 6.2 percent, and March 2008, which was 4.2 percent.

The last time the unemployment rate in Kansas was this high was in March 1983 when it was 7.1 percent.

For the Lawrence area, unemployment was at 5.5 percent, the same as in February and up from 3.7 percent in March 2008...

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