Kansas has more people working than ever before, the Kansas Department of Labor said Friday.
There are more than 1.4 million people employed in Kansas, according to data from November. The state has gained nearly 3,000 jobs in the last 12 months, mostly from construction, and professional and business services.
The unemployment rate for Kansas was 3.5 percent in November. That is down slightly from October and down from 4.3 percent in November 2016.
The unemployment rate for the Wichita area and Sedgwick County was 3.7 percent.
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