Mass layoffs increase in Missouri, stay flat in Kansas

[UpInArms]

http://kansascity.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stories/2005/05/16/daily29.html?jst=b_ln_hl

Missouri had more mass layoffs and initial claims for unemployment insurance in the first quarter compared with last year, according to statistics the Bureau of Labor Statistics released Thursday.

Missouri had 20 layoffs of at least 50 workers and 2,991 unemployment insurance claims in the first quarter, up from 18 layoffs and 1,822 claims in the first quarter of 2004, the bureau said in a written release.

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The nation had 989 mass layoffs and 127,950 unemployment insurance claims in the first quarter, down from 1,339 layoffs and 238,392 claims a year earlier.

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[gratuitous]

1. Kansas stays flat? That IS news!

Sorry, I couldn't resist the cheap joke.

[KansDem]

4. LOL!

Actually, where I live is hilly; well, hilly for Kansas, but western Kansas is preeeeeetty flat.

[gratuitous]

8. It's been a few summers ago now

But we drove from Kansas City down to Wichita, then up to McPherson and back to Kansas City a few years ago. I rather liked the topography I saw, and would have loved to have had a little more time to inspect those areas where the underlying rock is exposed. I did get a little nervous looking soooo far out on the horizon. I need some mountains to break up the view.

[MuseRider]

5. I am in the hilly part too

but I found that pretty funny. Good one.

[Fovea]

10. I live in Kansas City, Kansas

And ride a bike up a 17% grade to my house.
Now, out in WaKeeney, it is a different matter.

[ananda]

2. hmm, did Missouri..

.. go red? I think so. Now they're paying for it! Too bad...

Sue

[dubyaD40web]

3. Here's my take (cause I live in KS hell)

Outside of K.C. and maybe Topeka or Witchita, there's really no population here. Who are they gonna lay-off? A farmer.

[MuseRider]

6. I think that

has already been done. I don't know the statistics but remember reading that most of the farmland is now corporate. There are still some large family owned ranches but the farms? I'll bet they are almost all big corporations now.

[Kikosexy2]

7. Well...

their "moral values" will save them, que no?? isn't that what they voted for?

[frylock]

9. who cares if you don't have a job..

so long as the gays don't take yer guns or bibles away.