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Working in Kansas
12 Aug 2019
Kansas offers both the fast pace of a large city and the more relaxed lifestyle of rural America. Whether you choose bow ties or boots, Kansas offers more.
More Time for What Matters
What would you do with an extra hour a week? Commute times in Kansas are about 12 minutes a day less than the national average. Don’t waste time needlessly sitting in traffic. Each year American commuters waste 42 hours, more than a typical work week, according to the Auto Insurance Center, an insurance information website.
Moreover, Kansas has consistently been ranked as having some of the best roads in the country, meaning you can count on a safe, worry-free drive whenever you get in your car.
More Opportunities to Succeed
Kansas companies recruit from some of the nation’s best universities and technical schools and benefit from pro-business legislation and low taxes. Most importantly, Kansas encourages businesses to grow, innovate and think big.
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A government report is forecasting that growers in Kansas will harvest 330 million bushels of wheat this season. The latest estimate released Thursday by the National Agricultural Statistics Service is based on crop conditions July 1 and comes as wheat harvest is well under way in the state. Its forecast...
BIOSCIENCE
Aug 5 2019ALIVE WITH POSSIBILITIES
The science of living things such as human, animal and plants, has long been a strong field for Kansas. From the University of Kansas’ nationally recognized drug discovery and development enterprise, to the state’s historical agricultural leadership, to the selection of Kansas as home to the...
ANIMAL HEALTH
Aug 4 2019Kansas is home to a large concentration of public and private entities in the animal health and nutrition sectors, including research and production of therapeutics, diagnostics, biologics and nutrition and feed products.
The state currently has more than 16,000 people employed in biosciences, building on our established and emerging...