Kansas in the Exporting Industry
Despite periods of rising prosperity, the last three decades have been characterized by middle and lower-income wage stagnation; a lack of job opportunities for those without a college degree; and a speculative bubble-inducing trade deficit. While the exports in Kansas have been growing at a consistent rate, a significant increase in Kansas’s exports could dramatically improve these conditions, both nationally and statewide. (Brookings Program). To encourage this economic activity there have been several efforts made by both the government and private sector.
According to Export Nation, the state of Kansas exported $22.8 billion dollars worth of merchandise in 2012; the last year the information was available. Kansas ranked 30th out of the 50 states for exports. These exports were to both other states and foreign countries. Exports from the state of Kansas have risen from 11% of the gross domestic product in 2003 to 16.8% in 2012, gaining 5.8% in those 9 years. The city of Wichita, ranks 1st in the share and dollar amounts of exports. In 2012, the companies within the city exported $7.7 billion claiming 33.6% of the state’s exports. (Export Nation, 2012)
The products that Kansas tends to be known for exporting to other states or international countries are predominantly aircraft, wheat and beef. However, according to the Wichita Eagle, the top export from the state in 2013 was in the agribusiness sector, totaling more than $2.6 billion
Another issue is export. What proportion of the nation's output that is potentially exportable is in fact exported? One way to address this more narrow question is to begin with the domestic output of the goods-producing sectors of the economy, as measured by the value of final exports of goods, plus change in goods inventories,
States trades all over the world. In February of 2016 exports alone were $178 billion. Not surprisingly
The 1880s proved to be a time of change for America. High unemployment rates and low wages in many cities forced many to look to new opportunities in cities and elsewhere. This included the newly expanded west. In the 1880s Kansas had three dominating groups- railroad companies, farmers, and cowboys. All three dealt with individual triumphs and struggles when developing the West and specifically Kansas in the later part of the 19th century. Railroads spent most of the 1880s concerned with previous legislation, farmers worried about land allotment and surviving on the Plains. Cowboys also worried about land allotment and surviving. The worries of the last two created some tension between them but in the end survival of one depended on the
Kansas is well known for its effective participation in the Women 's Suffrage Movement. Early in the battle, the National American Woman Suffrage Association accepted Kansas as a liberal state that had a forward thinking mentality. In consideration of the state, the Association adopted the Kansas State flower, which is the sunflower as their image. The sunflower became a familiar sight and easily recognized symbol during suffrage campaigns. During the Women 's Suffrage Movement, Effie Graham was one of the many remarkable women that participated in the efforts and the fight for the right of women to be involved in the local votes and having the privilege to do so without any restrictions or discrimination against women, which Kansas was
Major imports include petroleum, coal, apparel, and gas. Major exports include automobiles, electronics, plastic, iron, and steel.
* Products that are commonly exported from the United States are things such as medicines, aircrafts, and cars. These are products are also important to humanity of different countries.
editorial, “What’s the Matter with Kansas?”, his work in politics, his focus on family, and his time at
Furthermore, there is little to no evidence that the Supposed “Shot of adrenaline” created many jobs in even the businesses that were making use of the policy in an honest way. In fact, according to Jordan Weissmann, a writer for Slate, “a group of economists took stock of the Kansas misadventure, using administrative tax data to figure out whether the cuts had done any good at all. In short, the researchers concluded, they had not”(Weissmann). This is alarming as if the bill did not make progress in decreasing unemployment, then the lost revenue for the state of Kansas must have caused issues in other aspects. Illustrating this point, Jordan Weismann alleges that because the State cut taxes on LLCs, it was required to “cut spending on public schools, colleges, Medicaid, and more”(Weissmann).
Kansas City, Missouri is located at the intersection of the Kansas and Missouri rivers. It is the biggest city in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area; the most crowded city in Missouri, the seventh biggest city in the Midwest, and the 39th most crowded city in America. Additionally, the location of the city makes it an ideal transportation hub and the most geo-focal market in the country, since three interstate highways serve it. Kansas City has a diverse economy including health care, telecommunications, legal services, manufacturing, governmental services, trade, and financial services. The locale gives access to more than a million employments in more than seven hundred occupations. Key employers in the region include the manufacturing sector taking up 10% of the employment opportunities, the services sector at 48% and the wholesale and retail sector at 14%. In the essay, I will analyze the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) of Kansas City Missouri for the fiscal year ended April 30, 2015.
Sam Brownback is trying to create more jobs by using tax cuts in Kansas. In order to create more
This takes us to the necessity of speaking about the collision of the north and south interest in the Kansas territory. Decades before the outbreak of the civil war thousands of Indians were pushed to go to the northwest by the white settlers who expanded west ward after the American Revolution. After that, during the Jacksonian era, other Indian tribes of different backgrounds were obliged by force to abandon their mother lands Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Missouri in order to move to the Indian Territory Kansas. These events forced the encounter of whites with red Indians who established a very strategic trade of fur making the Kawsmouth
In the book What’s the Matter With Kansas by Thomas Frank, a phenomenon has been happening which many people do not understand. In the sixties, Kansans were voting for democrats during the election. This was seen as typical and normal since democrats are meant to help lower and middle class people. This did not stay for long since shortly after Kansans started to vote for republicans which goes against the belief of what is assumed. Republicans are known for trying to lower the tax on the upper class and are against of many things things such as abortion. The author tries to understand why in person the views that Kansans have match with democrats yet when they vote it is for republicans. The reason this is happening is due to religion.
Kansas has many state parks and the popular place is the monument rocks and the castle rocks. The monument rocks and the castle rocks have fossils in ancient chalks in plain western Kansas which is a spectacular landmark. The chalk was deposited during the Cretaceous period of geological history about 80 million years ago, when the central interior was covered by sea. The fossils were like shark teeth, fish bones, even dinosaur bones, and other sea creatures. The fossils in the chalk bed go to the Sternberg Museum in Hays.Michael J. Everhart is a shark hunter and he found a shark skull which was under sand and gravel The chalk was a good material for trapping and preserving
The United States exported 2,174,526 thousand pounds of potatoes and potato products in the 2014/2015 year (U.S. Department of Commerce table). Considering the consumption of potatoes grown in the U.S., we
The information in the table highlights the impact of Asian foreign markets and the growing. China and Japan have been indifferently on the top position and has seen to takeover Unites States in the years stated (dfat.gov.au., 2016). There is no percentage, so the drawback lies in accurate comparison between countries amongst the distribution of export markets.