Kansas continues to be ahead of the national average when it comes it employment growth. Linda Nickisch is with the US Department of Labor Statistics office in Kansas City. She told Great Bend Post that about 12,100 non-farm jobs were added in the Sunflower State in April…a 0.9 percent from April of last year. She says employment grew 5.3 percent nationally last month, while the increase in Kansas was 7.1 percent. The star of this report statewide, though, is manufacturing growth in Wichita.”

Nickisch also said that business, manufacturing and a number of other sectors added jobs…while construction was the sector with the biggest loss in jobs.