Wichita State University releases Wichita and Kansas employment forecasts as coronavirus pandemic continues

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