The Wichita State University Center for Economic Development and Business Research released the 2021 employment forecast for Wichita and Kansas. For Wichita, unemployment spiked in April 2020 to 17.7% due to the coronavirus pandemic. The economy began to recover in the third quarter as unemployment dropped back to 6.8% in October 2020. Recovery is expected to continue in the fourth quarter of 2020 and job growth is expected into 2021. Average employment growth is forecast to be 0.7% in 2021, which would add more than 2,000 jobs back to the Wichita economy.
Source: KSN-TV
Source: KSN-TV
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