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Consumer Price Index, May 2024
Read more: Consumer Price Index, May 2024Looking at inflation calculations in a different way.
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Adult Literacy and Numeracy in Counties
Read more: Adult Literacy and Numeracy in CountiesExamining literacy and numeracy based on political preference.
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Biggest Producer of Crude oil #FACT #PERIOD
Read more: Biggest Producer of Crude oil #FACT #PERIODA popular meme on social media is true, but doesn’t convey its intended message.
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Employment, pre- and post-Covid
Read more: Employment, pre- and post-CovidComparing job growth before and after the Covid pandemic, attempting to remove the effect of the pandemic.
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Kansas Tax Revenue, May 2024
Read more: Kansas Tax Revenue, May 2024For May 2024, Kansas tax revenue was 23.1 percent lower than May 2023, and 22.7 percent lower than estimated.
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Wichita Employment Situation, April 2024
Read more: Wichita Employment Situation, April 2024For the Wichita metropolitan area in April 2024, most employment indicators changed only slightly from the prior month. Wichita continues to perform poorly compared to its peers.
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Student Loan Arithmetic
Read more: Student Loan ArithmeticWe see some student loan borrowers complaining that after paying for many years, they still owe a large portion of the loan. Here’s how the math works.
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Large County Employment, Fourth Quarter 2023
Read more: Large County Employment, Fourth Quarter 2023Employment in large counties, including Sedgwick County and others of interest.
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Business Formation in States
Read more: Business Formation in StatesFor both business applications and business formations, Kansas does better than some states, but lags many states and the nation.
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State Financial Health Metrics: Credit Score
Read more: State Financial Health Metrics: Credit ScoreThis chart shows the relationship between the median credit scores of residents in each U.S. state and the percentage of votes that Donald Trump received in the 2020 election.
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State Government Employees in Kansas and the States
Read more: State Government Employees in Kansas and the StatesKansas has more state government employees per resident than most states. The trend is steady after rising.
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Kansas Employment Situation, April 2024
Read more: Kansas Employment Situation, April 2024In Kansas in April 2024, the labor force rose, the number of jobs rose, and the unemployment rate rose compared to the previous month. Over the year, Kansas is at the midpoint of states in job growth.