Kansas received $378 million in federal stimulas funds for transportation projects. Deb Miller, state secretary of transportation, said the money brought 3,300 transportation jobs to the state in May, producing a monthly payroll of $4.4 million.
The Topeka Capital-Journal said the job increase was 13 percent over April and 47 percent since March.
The additional jobs are important. Just as important is the fact that the stimulus money allowed the state to do road maintenance and construction that it could not have afforded on its own.
Because the 2010 Legislature created and…
Stimulus dollars created jobs, fixed state roads
