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Old 02-26-2016, 08:23 AM
 
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Why settle for a mere 1% wage tax when you could implement a 5% wage tax like Philadelphia has?
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Old 02-26-2016, 10:14 AM
 
Location: Indiana Uplands
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Why settle for a mere 1% wage tax when you could implement a 5% wage tax like Philadelphia has?
It will cement the city into permanent Rust Belt status with all areas outside the city performing well.
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Old 02-27-2016, 05:59 AM
 
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The people of OKC are probably better than the people of KC and sure better than the people of any East Coast city based on the fact that they are Christians's which makes for a Red City.
I know right? It just burns me up to think about all those liberal people in coastal cities sinning, appreciating fine arts, and coming up with innovative, new ideas. San Francisco would be a much nicer place if they would just open up more Christian megachurches and embrace conservative fiscal policy.
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Old 02-29-2016, 07:24 AM
 
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[url=http://www.bls.gov/regions/mountain-plains/news-release/areaemployment_kansascity.htm]Kansas City Area Employment ? November 2015 : Mountain?Plains Information Office : U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics[/url]

Not sure if anyone has seen this before but I think it is cool to know that the area is adding jobs, definitely not at the same rate of booming areas, but that is alright because this is still heading in the right direction. The whole KC area needs to recognize that poaching each other does not add any new (net) jobs, it only makes matters worst. Keep in mind that this number has not included the 10000+ that would be added when the new Cerner campus in South KC opens. So that is heading in the right direction.

This number also includes the KC startups last year, I would assume. They are startups but hey, that is 10 new companies setting up shops downtown, plus a couple of ones from San Fran that open operations downtown in the past year. Hopefully, bigger corporate ones start noticing and take pride in having urban core presence.
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Old 02-29-2016, 07:39 AM
 
Location: Indiana Uplands
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Kansas City : Mountain?Plains Information Office : U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Overall total non-farm employment declined in the KC metro area between November and December by a significant percentage. January totals are not up as of yet.
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Old 02-29-2016, 09:42 AM
 
Location: Washington, DC area
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Kansas City : Mountain?Plains Information Office : U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Overall total non-farm employment declined in the KC metro area between November and December by a significant percentage. January totals are not up as of yet.
And the MO side has been adding quite a few more jobs than the KS side (while the KS side has been winning the "border war") All while metro employment remains rather stagnant compared to most cities that should be peers to KC. Further proof that decades of poaching companies across state line and corporate welfare have done more harm than good to the KC region. And not following the national trend of bringing jobs back to urban walkable center city areas isn't helping KC either.
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Old 03-01-2016, 05:29 PM
 
Location: Indiana Uplands
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And the MO side has been adding quite a few more jobs than the KS side (while the KS side has been winning the "border war") All while metro employment remains rather stagnant compared to most cities that should be peers to KC. Further proof that decades of poaching companies across state line and corporate welfare have done more harm than good to the KC region. And not following the national trend of bringing jobs back to urban walkable center city areas isn't helping KC either.
A sampling of employment growth by percentage change for Midwest metros from December 2014 to December 2015:
Sioux Falls: 4.1%
Grand Rapids: 3.8%
Des Moines: 2.9%
Indianapolis: 2.7%
Cleveland-Elyria: 2.2%
Columbus: 2.0%
Cincinnati: 1.9%
Minneapolis-St. Paul: 1.8%
Omaha: 1.8%
Madison: 1.6%
St. Louis: 1.2%
Detroit-Dearborn-Livonia: 1.2%
Wichita: 1.1%
Fargo: 1.0%
Milwaukee: 0.8%
Chicago-Naperville-Elgin: 0.6%
Kansas City, MO-KS: 0.3%
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Old 03-01-2016, 07:14 PM
 
Location: Washington, DC area
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A sampling of employment growth by percentage change for Midwest metros from December 2014 to December 2015:
Sioux Falls: 4.1%
Grand Rapids: 3.8%
Des Moines: 2.9%
Indianapolis: 2.7%
Cleveland-Elyria: 2.2%
Columbus: 2.0%
Cincinnati: 1.9%
Minneapolis-St. Paul: 1.8%
Omaha: 1.8%
Madison: 1.6%
St. Louis: 1.2%
Detroit-Dearborn-Livonia: 1.2%
Wichita: 1.1%
Fargo: 1.0%
Milwaukee: 0.8%
Chicago-Naperville-Elgin: 0.6%
Kansas City, MO-KS: 0.3%
Jesus, how bad would things be if Cerner wasn't bringing in thousands of new jobs to the metro?
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Old 03-01-2016, 07:34 PM
 
Location: Indiana Uplands
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Jesus, how bad would things be if Cerner wasn't bringing in thousands of new jobs to the metro?
It's not good. It goes back to metro regional economic development with greater tangible results, not politicians playing middle school games with public tax dollars with wasteful subsidies. Time for businesses to pay their own way instead of middle class taxpayers.
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Old 03-01-2016, 09:19 PM
 
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A sampling of employment growth by percentage change for Midwest metros from December 2014 to December 2015:
Sioux Falls: 4.1%
Grand Rapids: 3.8%
Des Moines: 2.9%
Indianapolis: 2.7%
Cleveland-Elyria: 2.2%
Columbus: 2.0%
Cincinnati: 1.9%
Minneapolis-St. Paul: 1.8%
Omaha: 1.8%
Madison: 1.6%
St. Louis: 1.2%
Detroit-Dearborn-Livonia: 1.2%
Wichita: 1.1%
Fargo: 1.0%
Milwaukee: 0.8%
Chicago-Naperville-Elgin: 0.6%
Kansas City, MO-KS: 0.3%
Ouch, even STL is scoring on KC. And Detroit.
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