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The economy of the Kansas City metropolitan area is anchored by Kansas City, Missouri, which is the largest city in the state [citation needed] and the 37th largest in the United States. The Kansas City metropolitan area is the 27th largest in the United States, based on the United States Census Bureau's 2004 population estimates. The metro's ...
The highly concentrated high tech industry in Silicon Valley exemplifies industrial localization. [3] Although the cost of labor and land in Silicon Valley is very high, high tech firms continue to locate there because of the added benefit they receive from their proximity to a high-skilled labor pool.
The legal minimum wage in Kansas remains $7.25 an hour.
The three counties with large meat packing plants are among the four counties in Kansas with a majority Hispanic population. Grant, the fourth county with a majority of Hispanics, is also in southwest Kansas, but has several vegetable processing plants rather than a large packing plant. The employees at the meat-packing plants in these three ...
Cluster theory is a theory of strategy.. Alfred Marshall, in his book Principles of Economics, published in 1890, first characterized clusters as a "concentration of specialized industries in particular localities" that he termed industrial districts.
In the summer of 2007, my family and I arrived in Coffeyville, Kansas. Originally, it was intended as a brief stop to visit family before heading to our final destination, Indianapolis, Indiana.
Kansas needs to make higher education more efficient; Pittsburg State takes lead.
Kansas has the 26th highest per capita income in the United States, at $20,506 (2000). Its personal per capita income is $29,935 (2003). Kansas counties ranked by per capita income