Kansas has a head start on great new year
Published:
December 31, 2012
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Kansas will stride into 2013 smiling.
Unemployment dropped to 5.4 percent in November while the national rate was 7.7 percent. Personal income increased strongly, driven primarily by high commodity prices that boosted farm families. Kansas was No. 11 among the 50 states in income growth from the second to the third quarter of the year — that puts us in the top 20 percent. We’re a leader!
Nothing in the visible future will change that picture. If rainfall returns to past averages, those high prices will put even more in farm bank…
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