pre-pandemic jobs Archives - Kansas Policy Institute

Kansas ends 2022 without fully recovering to pre-pandemic jobs numbers 0
- Tax & Spending
- January 24, 2023
In December 2022, Kansas was still 2,700 private-sector jobs below its pre-pandemic numbers while 30 states have already fully recovered. Failing to achieve this benchmark while a majority of the country has is a sign that Kansas needs more than ineffective economic subsidies and lackluster tax policy to grow. The Bureau of Labor Statistics adjusts
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Fewer government workers gives Kansans room to grow 0
- Tax & Spending
- October 21, 2022
September was another unexceptional month for Kansas’s jobs: the Sunflower State ranked in the bottom half nationwide for growth and is now in the minority of states that still haven’t fully recovered to pre-pandemic private-sector job numbers. Reducing the size of government and government workers is an opportunity to give Kansans more opportunity in the
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Unspoken reality gets bigger as Kansas jobs shrink 0
- Tax & Spending
- September 16, 2022
The elephant in the room of Kansas politics got bigger last month: Kansas lost 2,100 private-sector jobs last month. The state was already still below its pre-pandemic job levels, but now, 21,000 jobs total jobs are needed before full recovery to pre-pandemic levels. At the same rate of growth that the state has seen since
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Think Long-Term Relief with FY 2022 Tax Revenue 0
- Tax & Spending
- July 6, 2022
In June of 2022, the state of Kansas’s total tax revenue was $856.8 million, which was 2.2% greater than the estimates for this month. This includes $303.6 million in sales taxes and $523.8 million in income taxes. The revenue collected for June of this year was 7.7% higher than what it was in June of
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