Rich States Poor States: Kansas ranked 39th in economic performance0

• Tax & Spending
• April 19, 2023

While other states’ economies grow, Kansas’s continues to stagnate. In the recently released Rich States Poor States study for 2023, Kansas ranked 39th across all states on economic performance from 2011 to 2021. The most glaring issue was that Kansas ranked 42nd in non-farm employment growth. Over the decade, Kansas’s growth in this metric was