Today the Bureau of Economic Analysis, an agency of the United States Department of Commerce, released personal income figures for the states for the third quarter of 2017.
For the country as a whole, personal income grew at the annual rate of 0.7 percent from the previous quarter. For Kansas, the rate was 0.3 percent. That was the forty-seventh best rate. This continues the trend of Kansas underperforming the nation in recent years.
