In Kansas City area, jobs aren’t fleeing Missouri after Kansas tax cuts

"The recent data won’t please Brownback or his allies. In fact, the Kansas side of the metropolitan area has lost its longtime advantage in employment growth over Missouri since the tax cuts took effect in January 2013.

Take a look at federal Bureau of Labor Statistics figures, released on a monthly, non-seasonally adjusted basis for the area. (Note: The total workforce on the Missouri side is a bit larger than on the Kansas side.)

▪ In the most recent year, from January 2014 to January 2015, employment on the Missouri side of the state line rose 3.7 percent vs. 2.6 percent on the Kansas side.

The Missouri side gained 20,300 jobs in that year while Kansas added only 11,300.
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